Example sentences of "[noun] be for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … The proceedings in the present case are for the direct purpose of handing the appellant over so that he may be dealt with on these charges . |
| 2 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 3 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 4 | Of course , the pictures are for the young readers — or are they ? |
| 5 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 6 | All of them had safely negotiated Becher 's for the second time . |
| 7 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 8 | But the intention is for the 49 per cent Dutch government shareholding to be reduced later this year through an issue in Amsterdam , London , Frankfurt , Paris and New York . |
| 9 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 10 | An alternative is for the distributing company to form a Newco within its group and capitalise it sufficiently to reflect the value of the Target business . |
| 11 | Another alternative is for the smaller firm to tap into the growth of the older population — those over 55 — arising from early retirement and redundancy policies of large firms in recent years and other factors . |
| 12 | The alternative is for the wealthy individual to give up residence in Ireland and move his investments out of the country . |
| 13 | ‘ The saucepan 's for the peeled spuds , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The most satisfactory fit to the data is for the hybrid model with CDM and three neutrino species , two massless and one massive ( HDM ) . |
| 15 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 16 | One recommendation was for the older pupils to be divided into four occupational groups : engineering ; commerce ; domestic work ; and industries for which no vocational instruction was necessary . |
| 17 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 18 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 19 | His secret ambition was for the Argentine ban to be lifted so he could get to England and avenge Pedro 's death by taking out the English and especially one poker-faced Guards Officer . |
| 20 | Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ? |
| 21 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 22 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 23 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 24 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 25 | There are two columns of measurements to enter , the first column being for the actual body measurements and the second for the amount of ease that you wish to add to each of the actual measurements . |
| 26 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 27 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 28 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 29 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 30 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |