Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , they are for the relative opinion of the reviewing courts , not the tribunal . |
| 10 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 14 | It 's for the bigger lady and |
| 15 | ‘ It 's for the new stewards ’ training day . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't really go into details I 'm afraid , but , yes , it 's for the final push . ’ |
| 17 | It 's for the first christening . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's for the back door . |
| 19 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 20 | it 's , it 's for the previous years accounts , yeah |
| 21 | ‘ It 's for the starving multitudes , ’ he whined through his matted beard , holding out the crock of gold in his blood-stained fingers . |
| 22 | One should not expect to obtain a detailed contract , but once a commitment is made it is for the long term . |
| 23 | The Government believes that it is for the professional bodies and other organizations whose members provide legal services to satisfy the courts and the public that their members are competent to undertake representation . |
| 24 | It is for the European institutions to define those ’ floor-level ’ rights , but it is not for Brussels to say how they will be observed . |
| 25 | For that 's the way it is for the talented twosome . |
| 26 | Unemployment is a tragedy for the unemployed in Britain , just as it is for the greater number of unemployed in France and the United States . |
| 27 | What utter and unbelievable nonsense it is for the Labour Group to claim that the Conservative Group have sought to exploit the needs of people with disabilities in order to gain political advantage . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | When in due course the investigation process is completed by the issue of a report , it is for the regulating authority to put into effect the safety recommendations the report contains . |
| 30 | ‘ what a mortgagee is entitled to is that which is covered by the words ‘ costs charges and expenses properly incurred , ’ and it is for the taxing masters to say what these are … if the parties desire to depart from such a rule , they must express themselves in plain and unequivocal language . |