Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need an urgent review , maybe less papers but more information on rights lost and what Labour policies are for the future . |
| 2 | The private schools are for the élite , mostly in urban areas . |
| 3 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 4 | Some changes are for the worst , however . |
| 5 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 6 | An alternative method for dealing with vector elements of different lengths is for an increment value of one always to be used , but for the modifier field to be suitably manipulated when an element is accessed . |
| 7 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 8 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 9 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 10 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 11 | Stateless societies are for the most part small tribal societies , without any complex division of labour and economically poor , but some features of their political systems may perhaps also be found in other types of society , especially in village communities such as those of medieval Germany , or of India ( where they were once described as ‘ little republics ’ ) , although in these instances there is already some degree of subordination to a state , however remote , and some element of stratification and inequality of power in the local community itself . |
| 12 | These accounts are for the period from 15 July 1991 to 30 September 1992 . |
| 13 | It would be noted that in fact one of these plans is for a 20-bed unit consisting of 2 10-bed sections . |
| 14 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 15 | Operational matters are for the Governor , but I think it is important to bear in mind that although we know that violence was used in the early stages we have no evidence that anyone now still in the prison is in danger and you 've got to ask yourself in those circumstances whether you should risk injury or even death in storming the prison when as far as we know nobody remaining inside is now in danger . |
| 16 | Our only real protection from these problems is for the horse trainer or handler to cure the anxiety before the problems develop — to banish fears in the horse , not to make them . |
| 17 | Many of these changes are for the better : accommodation is much improved , the roads now are good . |
| 18 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 19 | All these things are for the heathen to run after , not for you , because your heavenly Father knows that you need them all . |
| 20 | But expensive as these things were for a king of a small country , they were not the crippling drain on his purse that genuine warfare would have been . |
| 21 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 22 | The foods that commonly cause or aggravate these conditions are for the most part excluded from the diet . |
| 23 | ( Note that these figures are for a hypothetical population with the life history given by a , not for the life history as it was while the lines were selected . ) |
| 24 | These figures are for the fibres alone . |
| 25 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 26 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 27 | Traditionally these courses are for the more able , particularly those with their sights set on higher education . |
| 28 | Also known as self-certified loans , these mortgages are for the self-employed , or those who , for one reason or another , can not supply an employer 's reference . |
| 29 | That 's forty five minutes , now these books , the white ones are for the tapes one to ten |
| 30 | These deposits are for a range of maturities from overnight to one year . |