Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 2 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 3 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 4 | The programmes are noted particularly for the high quality of choral singing . |
| 5 | Activities and programmes are organised primarily for the benefit of juniors . |
| 6 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 7 | Contour maps for estimated inversion based on the shale velocity and the vitrinite methods are shown here for the central Southern North Sea ( Sole Pit area ; Figs. 9 and 10 ) . |
| 8 | Statistical methods are described separately for the continuous variables ( knowledge , attitudes , and beliefs ) and discrete variables ( smoking behaviour ) . |
| 9 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 10 | Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus . |
| 11 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 12 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 13 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
| 14 | Then it is back to monthly meetings as the money begins to come in and ideas are put forward for the following year . |
| 15 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 16 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 17 | ’ Pluralist ’ reforms are promised vaguely for the future . |
| 18 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 19 | Confusingly , the same terms are used also for the plant communities of these regions . |
| 20 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 21 | Meals are eaten communally for the most part and we will meet together regularly for worship times . |
| 22 | Accommodation and flights are reserved only for the use of passengers named on the Booking Allocation . |
| 23 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 24 | It should be noted that the stages are defined purely for the purposes of this review and do not feature in the National Certificate Catalogue . |
| 25 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 26 | Pooled results are presented separately for the 17 and 21 item version of the scale and then all 20 trials were combined by using the standardised difference between mean Hamilton scores for the serotonin reuptake inhibitor and tricyclic and related antidepressant groups : Standardised difference=difference between means/standard deviation . |
| 27 | This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research . |
| 28 | But before the collecting boxes are handed round for the benefit of the new but impecunious union , there are some familiar figures , South African and otherwise , from rugby 's political elite to be seen . |
| 29 | Unlike western fashion clothes , whose form and variations are dependent on business interests , these Pakistani garments are created especially for the wearer by a joint effort of the women of the family . |
| 30 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |