Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 3 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 4 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 5 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 6 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 7 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 8 | However , they are for the relative opinion of the reviewing courts , not the tribunal . |
| 9 | But you see , neither are corner shop , I mean , we 've got a lovely corner shop at the roundabout but the prices packing small cos they 're for the elderly and single people and that , and the prices just rocket you know so high . |
| 10 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |