Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must please be clear about those factors which actually matter , always bearing in mind that it is for the county council in the first instance and perhaps for the panel in the second instance , to take a decision about the suppression of past migration trends . |
| 2 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 3 | But why not kill a child if it is for the child 's good ? |
| 4 | This is a decision by the Natural Environment Research Council and it is for the best scientific reasons . |
| 5 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
| 6 | The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance . |
| 7 | Similarly if the house is transferred upon certain terms and conditions ( see Chapter 6 ) s11 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 should relieve the transfer from charge ( see p99 ) on the basis that it is for the maintenance of the other party to the marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 9 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 10 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 11 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 12 | Of course these ideas will not be explored on each occasion and it is for the teacher to decide when it is right to pursue the child 's interest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 15 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 16 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 17 | The test is clearly an objective one , in the sense that it is for the magistrates to say after the event whether or not what the defendant did was reasonable . |
| 18 | Now , here again , in the past , group selectionist thinking had tended to the view that all you need for sex if it 's for the benefit of the species is a regular male , a regular female , doing the regular thing and er everything will be alright . |
| 19 | There is now a growing , widespread acceptance of CD-ROM as an effective electronic publishing medium and its established and growing base of users are as much a potential , almost captive , market for the textual databases of the past as they are for the multimedia databases of the immediate future . |
| 20 | Contemporary memoirs are as full of praise for the building 's beauty as they are for the work which took place within its walls : ‘ Its magnificence , proportions and pleasant air makes it unique among the buildings of the world , ’ wrote the chronicler Barni . |
| 21 | The reform of censorship ( 1865 ) was based on the principle that it was for the courts to decide when the press had broken the law , and pre-publication censorship was significantly reduced . |
| 22 | One of the most distressing factors is the ‘ jollying up ’ attitude of staff and their expectations that the patients and their families will collude with the ritual pretence that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds . |
| 23 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 24 | And , come to that , can we any longer rely on the received doctrine that it 's for the Chief Constable to decide on the allocation of resources ? ’ |
| 25 | But it is not , it is entertainment and it is for the people . ’ |
| 26 | And one of the most significant changes I wanted to make , and I think we have made was that the , the letting of contracts and the vetting of contracts and so on would be done by our Q Ss , in the same way as it is for the civil work |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There are then ‘ tell-tale gaps ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) in a text for the illustrator as there are for the reader . |
| 29 | There is no more evidence for the use of pattern books as regulators of design than there is for the existence of central workshops servicing definable territories . |
| 30 | He may not be able to see the political and general interest wood for the specialist trees , and there is a sense in which there are obviously dangers of that kind erm and the generalist has always taken the view that it 's for the specialist to be able to explain his problems in language which , after all , politicians who take the final decisions will have to be able to understand . |