Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 2 | In the tradition of Western philosophy there have always been those who longed for a society in which injustice and poverty were abolished and people able to share their material possessions . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm glad you stopped for the children . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 5 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 6 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 7 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 8 | Also disappointed were some who hoped for an inauguration of a holy war against the Roman occupation of Judaea : he taught non-resistance , love to enemies . |
| 9 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
| 10 | There were those who fought for the joy of fighting and those who slew for the sake of slaying . |
| 11 | Lot number sixty six Lot number sixty six is another one there we are , there 's another one showing for a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds any more at one ten , one twenty , thirty , forty , fifty one sixty , seventy one eighty at the back against you near me one eighty at the back and selling for a hundred and eighty pounds , all done at one eighty . |
| 12 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 13 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
| 14 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 15 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |
| 16 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 17 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |