Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] 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 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 3 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 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 . ’ |
| 11 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 12 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's for the new stewards ’ training day . ’ |
| 15 | We do have a death penalty , but it 's for the vulnerable , the young , the old and disabled . |
| 16 | I ca n't really go into details I 'm afraid , but , yes , it 's for the final push . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's for the back door . |
| 18 | it 's , it 's for the previous years accounts , yeah |
| 19 | ‘ It 's for the starving multitudes , ’ he whined through his matted beard , holding out the crock of gold in his blood-stained fingers . |
| 20 | One should not expect to obtain a detailed contract , but once a commitment is made it is for the long term . |
| 21 | The Government believes that it is for the professional bodies and other organizations whose members provide legal services to satisfy the courts and the public that their members are competent to undertake representation . |
| 22 | It is for the European institutions to define those ’ floor-level ’ rights , but it is not for Brussels to say how they will be observed . |
| 23 | For that 's the way it is for the talented twosome . |
| 24 | What utter and unbelievable nonsense it is for the Labour Group to claim that the Conservative Group have sought to exploit the needs of people with disabilities in order to gain political advantage . |
| 25 | And one of the most significant changes I wanted to make , and I think we have made was that the , the letting of contracts and the vetting of contracts and so on would be done by our Q Ss , in the same way as it is for the civil work |
| 26 | When in due course the investigation process is completed by the issue of a report , it is for the regulating authority to put into effect the safety recommendations the report contains . |
| 27 | ‘ what a mortgagee is entitled to is that which is covered by the words ‘ costs charges and expenses properly incurred , ’ and it is for the taxing masters to say what these are … if the parties desire to depart from such a rule , they must express themselves in plain and unequivocal language . |
| 28 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 29 | It is for the other party to examine the values of the opponent . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |