Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A more satisfactory way of delimiting lexical units is to look for grammatical differences which correlate with differences of meaning .
2 Taking all such extraneous factors into account , Ms Blackman says her recommendation to first-time buyers is to look for capped rates , noting the five-year cap at 10.65% offered by the Leeds Permanent ( 0532 438181 ) .
3 Guidance on the circumspection required in the day-to-day exercise of administrative powers is provided for civil servants in a booklet ominously entitled The Judge Over Your Shoulder .
4 r and K symbolize contrasted extremes of course ; many conditions lie in intermediate positions so that the terms are used in a purely comparative sense to indicate the extent to which a set of r or K habitat conditions is reached for comparable situations .
5 Cleveland Refuge and Aid for Women and Children is appealing for large play equipment .
6 A minimum of 50 complete sentences from the total corpus of 100 utterances is needed for Developmental Sentence Scoring .
7 The company said : ‘ A similar programme of new store openings is planned for future years . ’
8 This set of theses is intended for departmental use only , but evidence of use for inter-institutional loans was found on some of the declaration forms , as in the case of the Edinburgh University departmental collection .
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