Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 2 | But as one passenger said : ‘ Perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 3 | Then with a sigh , ‘ Perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 6 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 7 | requisition , if you 're in the position say then it 's like it 's for a common cause |
| 8 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 9 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 10 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just telling you how it is for a struggling garden designer , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh well , maybe it 's for the best . ’ |
| 13 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 14 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 15 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |
| 16 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |