Example sentences of "who [be] for " in BNC.
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1 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
2 | The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly . |
3 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
4 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
5 | ‘ Every day hundreds of people — chained , pinioned and fettered were brought to [ the sultan 's hall ] and those who were for execution were executed , those for torture tortured , and those for beating beaten . |
6 | Mr d'Ancona recalls : ‘ OSO started with the simple remit of cutting the umbilical cord which linked US oil companies with their established suppliers in the Gulf of Mexico , who were for the most part American . ’ |
7 | Who 's for an ostrich leg ? |
8 | Who 's for the punch bowl ? ’ |
9 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
10 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
11 | Who 's for goin' ? ’ |
12 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
13 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
14 | Who 's for coffee ? |
15 | Erm , who 's for a cup of tea ? |
16 | the member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts ; |
17 | Unlike Jesus Christ , who is for Christians the Son of God , Muhammad , who was born in AD 570 is seen by his followers as Gods messenger . |
18 | We have now a Secretary of State for Scotland who is for all practical purposes a Scottish Prime Minister . |
19 | And it 's all about : Who is for the high jump in Rome ? |
20 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
21 | Mrs Robins comes over as a cold , strict woman who was for ever giving orders . |
22 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
23 | A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug . |
24 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
25 | The trial of Mohammed Amadou Cissé , who was for many years the Minister of State in charge of Security and personal adviser to former President Mathieu Kérékou , began on July 31 . |