Example sentences of "[det] be [art] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 This is a knot used for joining two ropes of similar size .
2 This is a pattern to prepare for the movement of sitting down and standing up .
3 If , then , in the pages that follow , I group authors by friendship , acquaintance and sheer fellow-feeling , even though strangers or near-strangers , this is a device adopted for clarity and convenience , and little more .
4 This is a reminder to arrange for such exchange with the solicitors for both your seller and buyer .
5 This is no time to ask for a pay rise
6 This is no time to ask for a pay rise
7 This is no time to desert for some illusory future .
8 This is the space left for the pharmacy 's stamp , so that the pricing authority knows who to pay and who to address any queries to .
9 This is the name chosen for another family of devices which are built from simple nodes , connected in a network .
10 This is the way to prepare for the demands of adulthood .
11 This is the set used for inter-library loans , as well as for internal consultation .
12 So , if you still feel herbicide resistance is to blame , this is the season to test for it .
13 If you put such a statement firmly into the mouth of your detective or state it flatly yourself , the reader will realise , even without consciously doing so , that this is the limit set for the game , the frame of the crossword puzzle , and will plunge on happily .
14 This is the area to use for designing the Deco cards .
15 This is an accelerator constructed for nuclear structure research using heavy ions , and it can produce exotic nuclei .
16 Since this is an assumption taken for granted by a good deal of modern criticism , we should consider some of the objections that can be made against the New Critics ' arguments in its favour .
17 Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois .
18 This was a chamber made for a purpose ; a purpose it was impatient to fulfil even four thousand years after it was built .
19 This was a necessity to qualify for a later call to the Bar .
20 Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand .
21 He says that this was a cell used for patients in the early days of the hospital .
22 I wondered how it was possible to love many men when you had once loved one more than your immortal soul , and whether Lili had ever loved like that , or whether this was a torment saved for ridiculous people like myself .
23 This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight , gestational age , and respiratory symptoms .
24 As the Renaissance was seen as the most enlightened period in European history this was the style chosen for the following colourful buildings .
25 When oil was first imported this was the place chosen for an oil refinery .
26 This was the poser set for the department two years ago .
27 The parties at large are not seen as the formers of policy for the government ; that is a task reserved for the parliamentary members of the governing party .
28 Now that 's a man to die for ! ’
29 That 's a weekend gone for a ball of chalk !
30 And if that allocation is pushed through , if you like in the teeth of the structure plan policy , but it becomes your local plan , and that 's the legislation provides for that , that surely must be the the question .
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