Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though matte painting was and is favoured largely for economy — it reduces travel or set building or both — handcrafted painting is at times capable of effects that are beyond photography in terms of atmosphere , imagination and invention . |
| 2 | Table 3 is intended solely for use in the 800 literature main class , and Table 4 for use in the 400 language main class . |
| 3 | Stage 3 is recommended only for research topics ( e.g. special study options , or extended essays ) or out of personal interest in a particular topic . |
| 4 | Trace is designed principally for high-friction , metalled roads , where it predicts probable cornering forces based on the steering angle , engine speed and amount of grip available . |
| 5 | Called Double Drain , the board is designed primarily for use on vertical walls and structures in areas where there is a high water content in the ground . |
| 6 | This work programme is designed primarily for use in preparing circulars , rather than for making recommended offers . |
| 7 | This three-way classification is my own and is adopted mainly for convenience of exposition . |
| 8 | It is made annually for eminence in organic chemistry and includes a monetary prize of £2000 . |
| 9 | The work previously published by Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) on mammalian carnivores is expanded here for comparison with the avian predators , and the conclusion of these authors that small mammalian carnivores are not significant contributors to the fossil record is sustained by the more detailed work . |
| 10 | On the prototype the l.e.d. outputs from IC2 and IC7 terminate on 10-way header strips ; this is done purely for convenience in the later interconnections stage and you can , if you wish , simply connect ordinary outgoing wires or ribbon cable at these points for later connection to the various l.e.d.s . |
| 11 | You can begin by identifying different reading skills : skim or rapid reading , concentrated reading , information gathering , and reading which is done purely for pleasure and entertainment . |
| 12 | The opera has been finished two years ahead of schedule , but for productions of this scale that time is needed just for design and casting . |
| 13 | The text is enclosed here for information , in case local organisations are approached about it . |
| 14 | Although they are welcome as an attempt to rationalise clinical practice , we believe the bulletin and leading article to be greatly misleading in implying an overperformance of surgery since it starts from the premise that grommet insertion is performed predominantly for hearing loss , which represents only one debilitating symptom of the many that glue ear may produce . |
| 15 | Mail order is used predominantly for clothing , but also for leather goods , sports goods , small electrical appliances and the like . |
| 16 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 17 | By and large , information stored in files or computers is used mostly for packaging proposals and rarely for learning or initiating and evaluating alternative courses of action . |
| 18 | The change of chip is largely a political move , since the CPU is used mostly for housekeeping matters on an Auspex server , the main work is carried out through a series of custom and ASIC chips handling Ethernet , File and Storage processing . |
| 19 | Officially described as Fibresand ( a composite of silica sand reinforced with rot-proof synthetic fibres ) , which is used widely for exercise gallops , the Southwell track is actually a mixture of Fibresand , rubber particles and polymer . |
| 20 | Prestel is located in the Middle School library at present and is used primarily for retrieval and research work . |
| 21 | This menu is used mainly for keyboard operation as most operations are quicker and easier with a mouse . |
| 22 | This is used mainly for business but Fred also uses it in the evenings and at weekends for the family . |
| 23 | Stenotopy is a means of recording shorthand by machine and is used mainly for conference recording . |
| 24 | Once Alnmouth was a busy corn port but today the estuary is used solely for pleasure activities such as wind-surfing and sailing . |
| 25 | This is quite difficult to apply , and is used more for fancy and wedding cakes than for fantasy cakes such as those described in this book . |
| 26 | He has struck the sort of form which is prompting thoughts of an international call-up and he admitted : ‘ My main priority is to do well for Villa , but if I get an international chance then I 'll be ready to take it . ’ |
| 27 | Your own LIFESPAN user name is displayed here for information only . |
| 28 | This is a recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and music and is characterized by a certain daintiness of treatment which bears a feminine relation to the masculine ruggedness of the hall … at the opposite end is the ‘ refectory' ’ … . |
| 29 | The library opens at 8.15 am and from then until 9 pm and from 3.45 pm to 4.30 pm , time is set aside for computer games as long as the microcomputers are not required for more serious work . |
| 30 | And you never know when your husband is coming home for dinner , or if he 's coming home alone , or with his secretary or with a friend — I mean , you have nothing in your life to plan , not even that night , let alone the next day or the weekend . |