Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 2 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 4 | Note that the values which have been supplied above are for a typical medium-sized installation . |
| 5 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 6 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 7 | You can see that the page is entitled Covermaster for ten thousand pounds sum assured , so basically whatever figures are quoted underneath are for every ten thousand pounds of life cover available to your client , so it you want forty thousand you multiply by four etcetera . |