Example sentences of "[det] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is for gentle cooking in a dry heat at a temperature of between 30°C and 99°C . |
| 2 | This is for ordinary and special services , inland and overseas . |
| 3 | This is for real . |
| 4 | The entire ambience of ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion ’ is that of a live performance , a natural echo that leaves all the noises of amplifiers crackling , valves popping and equipment being shouldered on the tape as if to say , this is for real ! |
| 5 | This is for real , this is a bit of real archaeology . |
| 6 | This is for real ! |
| 7 | Oh this is for real now Don |
| 8 | This is for sure , ’ asked the Sheikha . |
| 9 | This is for sure ? |
| 10 | ‘ This is for sure , ’ they answered , looking at each other . |
| 11 | All of this is for economic reasons . |
| 12 | One way of achieving this is for MAS to hold all copies of the Information Memoranda and only to despatch these once the intermediary has returned a confidentiality undertaking to us . |
| 13 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
| 14 | Oh well this is for different kinds of metal you see |
| 15 | So we shall have mashed potatoes this is for mashed potatoes . |
| 16 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |
| 17 | This is for senior management groups to test if they know where they are going and the processes they use as well as the factors against which success can be judged . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 19 | to represent , to represent , this was for voluntary services . |
| 20 | These are for illustrative purposes only and can not be guaranteed by Midland Life . |
| 21 | An RGU spokesman said ‘ We currently have two teaching posts which are supported by Scottish Office money and these are for approved courses in textiles . |
| 22 | These are for physical warmth , food , clothing and cleanliness . |
| 23 | These are for fat people , and there are enough of them about . |
| 24 | Examples of the latter are for dummy entries in a table of instructions , or as an alignment filler in a computer with variable-length instruction formats . |
| 25 | The first is that it now seems the £200 must all be for personal injury or death and not just include such damages . |
| 26 | The only reason I shave at all is for other people . |
| 27 | Only 87,300 grants were paid last year and 42,000 of those were for minor repairs or facilities for disabled people . |
| 28 | What this analysis indicates , however , is that cost accountants do not just need to improve their product-costing , vital though that is for strategic decisions . |
| 29 | ‘ There will be a good crowd at church tomorrow , that is for sure . |
| 30 | There is a colour bar , that is for certain . |