Example sentences of "is [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The study tour , based in London , is for an invited group of conservators , craftsmen , planners and architects working in Croatia to assess the expertise on offer in the U.K. The workshop in York is additionally for other interested people and groups involved in conservation .
2 With no chance of live football league coverage the fight is on for European Cup matches and other internationals .
3 The pressure is on for immediate safety improvements .
4 and as the going gets good … the race is on for top jockey …
5 ‘ To save my suffering Papa tells me he is dead for sure .
6 Sadly this is the last Sharpe , but he is in for major exposure as he comes on to television .
7 ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’
8 JIMMY 'S , the real-life hospital drama , is in for some exciting episodes next year .
9 According to popular folklore anyone who owns such a picture is in for bad luck .
10 The biggest programme faces Foggo , who is down for 11 events , including her Olympic races of 400m and 800m freestyle , but she is unlikely to compete in them all .
11 This wonderful new slimming aid includes three meals a day and there is enough for four days .
12 There is in fact no completely clear or uncontentious way to draw this distinction but the broad idea is enough for present purposes .
13 Whatever the truth of the matter , however , it is enough for present purposes to note that the latest date given in any of the sources is 873/1468 and that there thus appears to be a gap of at least five years between the death of Fahreddin Acemi and the accession of Molla Husrev to the Muftilik .
14 And it and we had to collect twenty cans and then when you 've collected twenty cans that is enough for one trees one tree and it is gon na be planted in Sherwood Forest and it 's going to stay there for hundreds and hundreds of years .
15 The criterion of legality is enough for many parents , and understandably so : a criminal conviction is a handicap and a label that may stick for life .
16 We 'll show him we 're happy , and comfortable , and safe , and we 'll pretend our happiness is enough for all four of us .
17 Today 's pain is enough for all of us . ’
18 One ninety-minute cassette gives you forty-five minutes on each side which is enough for most people .
19 Half an hour 's detention listening to Ol' Blue Eyes is enough for most of them .
20 In theory at least , the diameters range from 5 to 15mm ( 0.2 to 0.6in ) and lengths are around 2 metres ( 78 in ) which is enough for any kite spar .
21 and erm obviously I mean that , that is only for employed people as well
22 They believe that creative thought is only for clever people .
23 Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness .
24 It is rare for companies to have formal arrangements for finding work for the spouse of a relocated employee especially as a typical posting to the UK is only for two or three years .
25 The more autonomous a field is , the greater the extent to which production in that field is only for other producers and not for consumers in the social field ( or field of power ) .
26 Important Note : The ‘ do-it-yourself– procedure is only for uncontested divorces .
27 Your will is only for those which you ca n't get rid of because you ca n't get rid of everything .
28 Note that this option is only for magnetic SPRs ( those created within LIFESPAN ) .
29 This is true of paper records , just as it is so for those stored in any other form .
30 If a thing is objectively so for one choice of means it is so for another ; it is a contradiction to estimate the capabilities of a subject class or race in one way when they are tractable and in another when they are not .
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