Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do some cabinet-making and joinery which produces a small income but most of my work is for the centre . |
| 2 | ‘ My dream is for the joint venture to become one of the major players in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 3 | My job is for the spiritual welfare of the people in my charge . |
| 4 | My purple stripy barrel-bag — it was small , it 'd look as if I was going off to my gran 's for the weekend . |
| 5 | My passion was for the stage and I was going to go for it . ’ |
| 6 | My concern is for the future , not just for ourselves , but for the children in our schools and colleges , and in all centres of education . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to assure you that my concern is for the future happiness of your granddaughter and I will do all within my power to provide the necessary support . ’ |
| 8 | Smoked turkey ( see p11 ) is produced in many countries , but my preference is for the Belgian variety . |
| 9 | My preference is for the LR engine . |
| 10 | So in all other situations , my preference is for the leader to tie into the harness on a separate figure of eight on the bight , adjusted so that any downward load pulls down through the waist and onto the thighs , as in ( Fig. 1b ) . |
| 11 | My preference is for the bigger man yet Andy Robinson has given me more difficult games that any other opponent . |
| 12 | But it did n't take me long When you 're finished , tell me what you think my profit was for the day . |
| 13 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 14 | They often needed money above and beyond their budget ( though sometimes not much ) — because usually their budget was for the routine things they were doing , and if they wanted to do something novel , they had to find extra funds . |
| 15 | Her entry was for a suit for Dame Edna Everidge to wear to visit her bank manager . |
| 16 | Less consciously , their desire was for a baby to be given to them by a symbolic mother ( the female doctor ) . |
| 17 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
| 18 | ‘ God 's green earth in all its fullness is for the people ’ he proclaimed , and set about making it possible with characteristic fervour . |
| 19 | When children recognise that their writing is for a real public audience , not just the teacher but other people , they are more likely to be concerned with their spelling . |
| 20 | Their quest was for the perfect formula . ' |
| 21 | To understand why this is so we need to return to the polytrauma theory outlined earlier and see what its significance is for the development of the modern individual . |
| 22 | Such content as it attaches to physical reality is to be interpreted in terms of the experience of an observers its quest is for the harmonisation of such experience . |
| 23 | Its quest is for an active invention of a whole pattern of ‘ effective partnerships ’ , to help Northerners and northern agencies of all kinds to work together in a co-operative of enlightened self-interest . |
| 24 | The extrovert singer , famous for her work with Soul II Soul , is a confirmed hatter , and her taste is for the exotic , never the ordinary . |
| 25 | We have dwelt too long among the great ; for all these cities , vital as their history was for the future , give little help in explaining the extraordinary prosperity of the smaller cities — though the precocious growth of Pisa may have helped its Tuscan neighbours . |
| 26 | Six respondents indicated that their visit was for a combination of leisure and business or study . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's at her mother 's for the moment . |
| 28 | His sentence is for a civil matter , so he is entitled to certain privileges denied to inmates convicted of criminal offences . |
| 29 | His plan is for an extension offering 10,500 square metres ( 12,560 square yards ) of extra floor space on three levels in line with the slope of the street which runs along the northern side of the gallery . |
| 30 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |