Example sentences of "and [noun] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 2 | Whole concepts , whole reorganizations of thought swam drunkenly through her head , and lurched and revolved like the drowned woman and her orange : she no longer knew what gardens and houses were for , and their distinctions , once clear , had grown confused . |
| 3 | But Bourdieu is on the other hand very French , very Parisian , and as seductively avant-garde in sociology as Foucault , Lacan , Barthes , Lefebvre , Derrida , and Deleuze are for other academic disciplines . |
| 4 | Parkside pit camp mugs , T-shirts and badges are for sale , and a limited edition commemorative plate has been produced . |
| 5 | Guided tour and ploughman 's for groups by arrangement . |
| 6 | Derelict land is resilient , robust and interesting , providing private areas that are so necessary to children — land to dirt-track on which cowboys and indians are for real , and ponds to sail boats that never do . |
| 7 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 8 | Beinn Eighe and Liathach are for heroes . |
| 9 | We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze , which goes : A is for Aids , B is for Bondage , C is for Condom , D is for Deviancy , E is for Equality , F is for Feminism , G is for Gender Stereotyping , H is for Haringey , I is for Income Support , J is for Joyriding , K is for karma , L is for Liberalism , M is for Ms. , N is for New Age , O is for Outing , P is for Positive Discrimination , Q is for Questioning Authority , R is for Radical , S is for Single Parent , T is for Therapy , U is for Underprivileged , V is for Virtual Reality , W is for Wimmin , X is for Malcolm , Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen . |
| 10 | This is not to say that the one is better than the other , music and poetry are for ever different and it is the difference that accords us the added joy . |
| 11 | On April 27th only 20% opposed it and 39% were for signing . |
| 12 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 13 | An interviewee of the Holman group observed , ‘ My experience as a child care officer was that some of the worst adoption breakdowns and problems were for kids in their adolescence . ’ |
| 14 | The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue . |
| 15 | A wide variety of antiques , bygones , gifts and china are for sale . |
| 16 | Everyone is the same in the eyes of God , and his love , mercy and forgiveness are for all . |
| 17 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 18 | However , slum clearance and replacement was for the poor . |
| 19 | Youth , when death has no reality ( she does n't mean fear of death , children can have that ) , and our actions and pleasures are for their own sake , for what they are now and new . |
| 20 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 21 | Gladstone , Cobden and Bright were for it . |
| 22 | The filters were washed to 2 SSC , 0.1% SDS at 65°C and autoradiographies were for 2 days . |
| 23 | Health services exist for the benefit of patients , not doctors ; schools and colleges are for students , not for teachers or administrators . |
| 24 | Whatever their differences , the two queens had one quality in common : Mary , like Elizabeth , sensed that the best way to win her subjects ' affection and loyalty was for her to be seen moving among them . |
| 25 | And Polos are for girlie 's — so such on that ! |
| 26 | Sentiment and nostalgia are for pleasant memories . |
| 27 | The shampoo and combs are for white people 's hair ; they do n't have Black combs . |
| 28 | very carefully chosen erm , G is your forward schedule , for next year onwards , H would be for God , otherwise known as the boss , I is for erm , otherwise known as colleagues , and J is for plebs , people who report to you , and K is the personal section , and L is new ideas schedule . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never been one for doctors , and hospitals were for visiting other people , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The standard agreement which Copeland 's company had with such acts as Caravan , the Climax Blues Band , Wishbone Ash and Squeeze was for a 50–50 split — a worse arrangement than the one Copeland had encouraged Sting to sue Branson over . |