Example sentences of "[pron] be for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 3 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 4 | A purpose which is for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons ( other than a State institution ) is not charitable , although it results in an indirect benefit to the community . |
| 5 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 6 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 7 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 8 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 9 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 10 | And it 's all about : Who is for the high jump in Rome ? |
| 11 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 12 | Among the free churches there is no set system of redundancy procedure as there is for the Anglican Church , so that it may be for officials from the local congregation to decide if and how to dispose of vacant church property . |
| 13 | There is no surviving detailed assessment of income for the eleventh-century papacy as there is for the English kings in the great Domesday Book of 1086 . |
| 14 | The evidence produced by the major enquiries which took place between 1816 and the 1840s has been variously treated by historians , but what little evidence there is for the earlier mills seems uniformly bleak . |
| 15 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 16 | What little excitement there was for the colourful Cagliari crowd of 30,000 came from the Italian midfielder Giannini . |
| 17 | But the Whigs had miscalculated how much sympathy there was for the High Church position . |
| 18 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |
| 19 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 20 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 21 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 22 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 23 | However , they are for the relative opinion of the reviewing courts , not the tribunal . |
| 24 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 26 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 27 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 28 | It 's for the bigger lady and |
| 29 | ‘ It 's for the new stewards ’ training day . ’ |
| 30 | I ca n't really go into details I 'm afraid , but , yes , it 's for the final push . ’ |