Example sentences of "[noun] [be] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parkside pit camp mugs , T-shirts and badges are for sale , and a limited edition commemorative plate has been produced . |
| 2 | About 15 posts are supervisory and management jobs and the remainder are for checkout , shelving and other staff . |
| 3 | Apart from employment , the most serious implications of the policies of constraint are for housing . |
| 4 | These teeth are for battle . |
| 5 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 6 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
| 7 | I maintain that bilateral hearing is essential for sound location — as two eyes are for stereovision . |
| 8 | And so to war , and at first a very strange war , On either side it appeared that no one wanted to start the bombing war which in our way had been our long time plan — in fact the Trenchard theory that fighters are for defence , bombers for offence . |
| 9 | I would sum it up by saying cars are for work , not for worship . ’ |
| 10 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 11 | Typical values of the relevant parameters are for olivine and for plagioclase . |
| 12 | ‘ Words are for truth . |
| 13 | These books are for reference only and are not to be removed from the library . |
| 14 | Finally , by way of introduction , Ranganathan 's laws of librarianship remain valid to the study of library use : books are for use ; for every reader his book ; for every book its reader ; save the time of the user . |
| 15 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 16 | Shall brothers be for a' that . |
| 17 | Shall brothers be for a' that . |
| 18 | All of these subjects were for year 9 to choose from to study for 2 years at G.C.S.E. level . |
| 19 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 20 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 21 | Erm if the if the figure were for example forty one thousand , er would you still say that there should we 'd be putting the brakes on the train on too hard ? |
| 22 | We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze , which goes : A is for Aids , B is for Bondage , C is for Condom , D is for Deviancy , E is for Equality , F is for Feminism , G is for Gender Stereotyping , H is for Haringey , I is for Income Support , J is for Joyriding , K is for karma , L is for Liberalism , M is for Ms. , N is for New Age , O is for Outing , P is for Positive Discrimination , Q is for Questioning Authority , R is for Radical , S is for Single Parent , T is for Therapy , U is for Underprivileged , V is for Virtual Reality , W is for Wimmin , X is for Malcolm , Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen . |
| 23 | It says F is for literacy problems , debts problems and drug alcohol problems as well as . |
| 24 | There 's a thing , because there are a terrible lot of things I do n't like at all of Picasso 's for instance , his versions of ‘ Las Meniñas ’ . |
| 25 | the side is for parking . |
| 26 | This is because 40 per cent of all the information that is taken in through the eyes is for balance alone . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , the majority of energy used in homes is for space heating ( heating the rooms and the people ) and this is mostly needed in the winter when there is not sufficient sunshine in this country for solar energy to be feasible . |
| 28 | The search is for oblivion . |
| 29 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 30 | Everything but the couch is for sale . |