Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour 's detention listening to Ol' Blue Eyes is enough for most of them . |
| 2 | Veneration of the images is therefore for the devout Hindu worship of Brahman . |
| 3 | An' 'e 'd say : ‘ Them books is n't for the likes o' you , Jack . |
| 4 | The £50,000 awarded to voluntary organisations is specifically for the purpose of preventing homelessness and dissuading young people from coming to London when they have neither housing nor jobs . |
| 5 | An eighteenth century mansion which has been a convent school , a Hari Krishna temple and a training ground for police tracker dogs is up for sale . |
| 6 | 1.3 The premises Unit no of the Centre more particularly defined in the First Schedule The premises must be readily identifiable and provision in the particulars is mainly for a unit or postal number to be inserted . |
| 7 | A water mill that has n't changed for one hundred and fifty years is up for sale as a unique country home . |
| 8 | In fact , as we have already indicated , there can be little doubt that the most important and overriding purpose of comparative studies is not for any practical policy implications which may be derived . |
| 9 | For the moment , the demand to make of the nuclear powers is not for a test ban but for five-power talks and joint research to explore more defensible ways of going about their testing business . |
| 10 | Joanna Slaughter of the Observer , estimates that a backdated personal pension plan of 9.05 per cent of band earnings is there for the asking at no cost to the employee ( Observer , 26 June 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Already an established provider of training to school leavers and adults , mainly through the Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) , the focus at Enterprise Training centres is increasingly for trainees to take NVQs or join courses which help them back to work . |
| 12 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
| 13 | Playing foreign markets is not for the faint-hearted . |
| 14 | • MORE than £1,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the British All-comers Championships at Tynemouth this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 15 | The House does not have to take my word for it , because the action taken to deliver our commitments is there for all to see in the report . |
| 16 | In the 1920 's and 1930's she was a social worker in the Middle East , and also ran a children 's home for Doctor Barnardo 's . |
| 17 | Technological change has led to a de-skilling of industrial work , so that a major requirement of many employers is now for cheap , non-unionized , semi-skilled labour ( Massey 1979 ; Wood 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The pages ( 990 of them ) are full of helpful screen diagrams but I missed the ‘ idiot 's ’ step by step command style that I 've convinced myself I need in a manual — but then Windows 3.1 secrets is n't FOR idiot 's . |
| 19 | The provision of homes for old people by local authorities is still for only about twenty places per thousand old people in an area , and many of these will be for very old and frail disabled people . |
| 20 | The way of the mystics is not for everyone , but some will find their answer in it , and for others it will perhaps give an insight into the potential of the mental world . |
| 21 | One of the country 's best-known concert venues is up for sale . |
| 22 | Whether pope and curia can or should win such battles is not for us to say . |
| 23 | Playing at cards is n't for one , except Patience . |