Example sentences of "be for [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 2 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 3 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 4 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 5 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 6 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 7 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 8 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 9 | And how heartening his recovery must be for the families of other coma victims . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Indeed , because of the court 's limited power , the policy of ultimate caution must be for the terms of any conveyancing documentation to be agreed between the respective solicitors before the consent order is applied for . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 14 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 15 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 16 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 17 | Yet the more heavily regulated the market is , and the greater the restrictions on the property rights given to suppliers , the less scope there is for the benefits of competition to emerge at all . |
| 18 | The singing is flexible and responsorial and all the music is for the words of the Liturgy itself . |
| 19 | The author is for the purposes of this book broadening the definition to include all the cowboys in and out of the City of London , selling shares , futures , and occasionally other financial instruments . |
| 20 | A buyer under a conditional sale agreement which is a consumer credit agreement within the meaning of that Act ( see Chapter 19 ) , is for the purposes of section 25 of the Sale of Goods Act and section 9 of the Factors Act , not someone who has ‘ bought or agreed to buy , ’ ( Consumer Credit Act 1974 , Schedule 4 and section 25(2) of the Sale of Goods Act ) . |
| 21 | Dual assessments will be most common where the local authority is assessing a child 's special educational needs under the Education Act 1981 or where a child is disabled and the assessment is for the purposes of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 or associated legislation . |
| 22 | It is often the case that a letter is for the eyes of a particular person and nobody else . |
| 23 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 24 | Your comparison is to Latin America , when the most direct precedent is for the debtors of sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 25 | This is for the proportions of the elderly to decline in the populations of some large , traditional retirement resorts , such as Bournemouth and Torquay , and to rise in adjacent and nearby local authorities . |
| 26 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 27 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 28 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |