Example sentences of "[adv] be for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 3 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 4 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 5 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 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 | The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . " |
| 8 | An order need not always be for the maximum period . |
| 9 | Fifth , the problem of fonts and output matching will become as big a problem for the desktop publishing market as it ever was for the traditional sector and potentially more confusing for the user than ever before . |
| 10 | The evening ended with a Pirate Play and I went home thinking what a wonderful concert , as it probably was for an elementary school having no spare cash . |
| 11 | You 'll really be for the high jump if you do n't put Farley 's Tea Timers on their menu . |
| 12 | Laity participate mainly through traditional organizations and the call now is for a new strategy based on small Christian communities . |
| 13 | Peres pledged to lead Labour in militant opposition to the ruling Likud of Itzhak Shamir , saying : " The struggle now is for a credible peace process . " |
| 14 | The recipe here is for a simple marzipan that needs no cooking . |
| 15 | The example here is for a self-employed professional who charges for time spent on a number of projects and at a variety of rates . |
| 16 | , looks like Pam , oh no she 's not on it , she 's not doing quoits , I tell you a lie , but somebody here is for the British Polio Linda S five |
| 17 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 18 | After talks with BR 's Chairman , Peter Parker , we agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company , British Rail Investments , to be formed and for the subsidiaries to be transferred to the private sector , with the proceeds going to British Rail . |