Example sentences of "[be] for [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 2 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 3 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 4 | The only job vacancies in Angleside are for interviewers in the Social Security office , where the furniture is screwed to the floor in case the clients should try to assault the interviewers with it . |
| 5 | There are complex historical reasons for this , just as there are for differences in the amount of seasoning used in cooking . |
| 6 | Wednesdays are for jobs in the media . |
| 7 | Advertisements here are for jobs in personnel and training , selling and management , as well as technical and professional . |
| 8 | As for li , it is pattern , structure , order ; the concrete uses of the word are for veins in jade and the grain of wood . |
| 9 | These trends are perhaps not surprising but it should be noted that the result will be for schools in disadvantaged areas to lose pupils and to increase their unit costs per pupil . |
| 10 | As indicated in the recent guidelines of the Department of Health and Social Security ( 1984 ) , a sensible approach towards establishing comprehensive services would be for clinicians in each area to set up a service which most suits local conditions and needs . |
| 11 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 12 | An interviewee of the Holman group observed , ‘ My experience as a child care officer was that some of the worst adoption breakdowns and problems were for kids in their adolescence . ’ |
| 13 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 14 | And that 's for beds in registered nursing homes in one health board area where I think the total bed complement for the health board is something like 3000 . |
| 15 | I am sorry your reply is not clear enough I 'm going to have to shoot you it 's for Children in Need |
| 16 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |
| 17 | The good news is for members in the Republic of Ireland where no premium increases are proposed during 1993 . |
| 18 | The bad news is for members in Northern Ireland and Great Britain where , because of the continuing climate of increasing claims being encountered by all insurance companies , it has unfortunately been necessary to increase the rates by an average of 23% for all new business and policies falling due for renewal on and after the 1st May next . |
| 19 | We have to understand the pleasure there is for women in such fantasies . |
| 20 | A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP . |
| 21 | One of the only ways around this problem is for suppliers in industrial goods markets to encourage their customers to buy on a consistent and long term basis , under contract . |
| 22 | The City of London plan was for students in the first semester ( sixteen weeks ) to take three basic courses , followed by a second semester in which three introductory courses stemming from the basic courses would be followed . |
| 23 | But it was a very distinctive and pervasive tone : the Hollywood casting couch was for starlets in the States and stud boys in London . |
| 24 | This Wednesday was for women in business , computers and design , but no one seemed to care . |
| 25 | One recommendation made to a large number of departments , however , was for changes in teaching methods , notably the introduction of more oral work . |
| 26 | One frequent request was for containers in which to put belongings which were to be stored at Bloomsbury House : ‘ Alice needs 2 wooden boxes and 1 cardboard container in which to put all her belongings … ’ |