Example sentences of "[be] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ?
2 The first will be for a standard way to support multimedia applications under Unix .
3 The first will be for a standard way to support multi-media applications under Unix .
4 the tenancy must be for a minimum period of six months
5 The cheapest will be with a junior instructor in a large ride and the top rate will be for a private lesson with the chief instructor .
6 Although it is true that warrants must be for a fixed period and may not be open-ended , the period in question is a relatively long one and may exceed the purposes for which the warrant is initially granted .
7 This would apply only to a juvenile already in care of a local authority and then found guilty of a further imprisonable offence , and would be for a fixed period of not more than six months .
8 The licence may be for a fixed , perhaps renewable , period of time or there may be no mention of duration , in which case it can be assumed that the licence will last as long as the software is subject to copyright protection .
9 As made clear in s. 205(1) ( xxvii ) ( above ) this means that a valid legal lease must be for a fixed and certain period of time .
10 Present employment law restricts the effect of such a covenant in a service agreement , but if inserted in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement , it is more likely to be enforceable. ( 3 ) The service agreement will be for a fixed term so that the managers are locked in for that period .
11 To be for a democratic united Europe means to be unambiguously against its current economic reality — and most immediately against the policies dictated by the ERM .
12 According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance .
13 It might be for a certain amount of time while they do so and so and then , what can he do ?
14 The best possible solution , as far as Loretta was concerned , would be for a total stranger to be revealed as the murderer .
15 This arrangement is not popular with staff and should therefore be for a predetermined limited period .
16 ( 2 ) The smaller company will invariably have to pass an ordinary resolution increasing its authorised share capital and giving its directors authority to allot new shares under CA 1985 , s80 in order to give effect to the share exchange ( a s89 disapplication will not be necessary as the new share issue will be for a non-cash consideration ) .
17 At the next meeting on Thursday Mrs Russell will bring a display of Goss china , and the competition will be for a small piece of china .
18 At the next meeting on February 27 Mrs Russell will bring a display of Goss china and the competition will be for a small piece of china .
19 And each tag will be for a specific vehicle only , to guard against fraud , despite pleas from lorry firms to be allowed to transfer them around their fleets .
20 Alas for them , Faber was not in Santa 's sack this year , and is unlikely to be for a long while .
21 As mortgages tend to be for a long term and in view of the fact that 75% of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding it is reasonable to classify this as a long-term liability .
22 Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him .
23 The focus would move from the determination of who is legally right and from consideration of the reasonableness of the employer 's action in the circumstances of the individual dismissal to the location of the dispute firmly in the realms of industrial relations , rather than employment law , where the search would be for a workable and acceptable solution which took account of the wider context .
24 Schedules are generally constructed over a year , which is usually the client 's short-term planning cycle , but may be for a single seasonal burst .
25 When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases .
26 First , how large does a sample have to be for a given population ?
27 If he ever left Everton now it would be for a modest fee .
28 One will be for a fast and reliable commuter line across Kent , which could incidentally carry cross-Channel traffic .
29 Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it .
30 It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " .
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