Example sentences of "[prep] [be] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 2 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 3 | The answer to this decisive question resides not in a logic which compels , for example , all questions of law always to be for the courts or the tribunal . |
| 4 | That 'll have to be for the sheets |
| 5 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 6 | These can not be defined prespecifically in behavioural terms as they would have to be for the tests . |
| 7 | The common response to predator attack appears to be for the cetaceans to flee , often silently , having first formed a tight group if they can . |
| 8 | All we 're asking for is a sense of balance , all we 're asking for is for the facts put in there , so at least if the symptoms are made aware , then at least people are aware to do something about it . |