Example sentences of "[noun] be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These accounts are for the period from 15 July 1991 to 30 September 1992 . |
| 2 | … The proceedings in the present case are for the direct purpose of handing the appellant over so that he may be dealt with on these charges . |
| 3 | The illustrations are for the case when the game is played with the eight neighbouring sites ( the cells corresponding to the chess king 's move ) , and with one 's own site ( which is reasonable if the players are thought of as organized groups occupying territory ) . |
| 4 | We need an urgent review , maybe less papers but more information on rights lost and what Labour policies are for the future . |
| 5 | All those defences are for the defendant to establish on the balance of probabilities . |
| 6 | A few , a tiny few , recognise how unreasonable this attitude is , but the overwhelming majority are for the time being standing firm . ’ |
| 7 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 8 | could I ask if i if it is appropriate whether whether Bob could elaborate on on what the proposals are for the Market Hall and . |
| 9 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 10 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 11 | Rewards are for the CB , not for stopping behaving badly when asked . |
| 12 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 13 | The system is essentially diagnostic , the remedies are for the librarian to apply . |
| 14 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 15 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 16 | Of course , the pictures are for the young readers — or are they ? |
| 17 | Motion pictures are for the people . |
| 18 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 19 | The private schools are for the élite , mostly in urban areas . |
| 20 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 21 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 22 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 23 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 24 | If an abseiler becomes entangled and stuck during an abseil then the only remedy is for the instructor to cut the rope at the top . |
| 25 | The first for Hydro Electric is for the renewal of a maintenance contract for fire alarms at their Peterhead power station , while the second is to service the fire alarm equipment at Scottish Power 's Longannet power station . |
| 26 | The biggest entry is for the handicap singles with 74 players competing . |
| 27 | The ultimate deal is for the promoter to guarantee the band the whole £4,800 . |
| 28 | A further recommendation is for the setting up of an independent body of journalists that would abide by an agreed code of conduct . |
| 29 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 30 | All of them had safely negotiated Becher 's for the second time . |