Example sentences of "[noun pl] be for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 2 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 3 | Of course , the pictures are for the young readers — or are they ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 9 | Rather , this chapter asks what the implications are for the administrative system , should a state develop corporatist tendencies . |
| 10 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 11 | Quite why food and diet have become of such interest in recent years is for the social historian to discuss , but there is no doubt about the present popularity of culinary herbs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some changes are for the worst , however . |
| 14 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 15 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 16 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 17 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 18 | The escort girls are for the rich man who does not want the bother of leaving his hotel-room if the need gets too strong . ’ |
| 19 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 20 | Prescriptives is for the contemporary woman who demands the same high standards from her beauty products as she expects from her wardrobe . |
| 21 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 24 | The way to eradicate threadworms is for the whole family ( apart , possibly , from pregnant mums ) to take de-worming treatment , either an over-the-counter medication or the rather more effective prescribed preparation from your doctor . |
| 25 | ‘ He hasnae been for the last three games . ’ |
| 26 | Reports are for the sole benefit of the person to whom they are addressed , and no responsibility is accepted to any third party without prior written consent . |
| 27 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 28 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 29 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 30 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |