Example sentences of "be [adv] for [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'll tell you one thing , Monday 's not gon na be wonderful for me , I 've got to go into hospital for a little operation er b but seriously , I 'll be out on Tuesday , but I 'll , I 'll be away for the week er , because the Doc said do n't come back to , to work till a week on Monday , so I 'll , I 'll try and listen if I can , but what have you got for us ? |
| 2 | Then in the Southern my next prayer was to be home for the boy 's Christmas holidays from school and I got home : it was even more special . |
| 3 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 4 | I spotted several club professionals , who were clearly delighted to be out for a day 's entertainment at the expense of one of the manufacturers . |
| 5 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 6 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 7 | In fact , if it were n't for the program 's stunning speed , you could easily believe you were running a Windows application . |
| 8 | The size and range of the country 's sex business may mean that Thailand is in for the world 's fastest upswing in HIV infection . |
| 9 | Such conduct is now conversion by statute but this is merely for the draftsman 's terminological convenience and has no effect on the concept of conversion at common law : for this reason , it must be kept separate in our analysis . |
| 10 | Unlike those of the Philistines his worst fears have been realized , and the cry he hears go up in the town is not for the ark 's arrival , but for its capture . |
| 11 | The keyword LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE does not necessarily relate to the CHECKED-BY keyword in the MODIFICATIONS-RECORDS field of the module referenced , but is purely for the user 's information . |
| 12 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 13 | Artemis 's father was away for a week 's sport in Leicestershire , and apparently it was expected of Artemis that she should be ready and able to go out and ride her new horse side-saddle alongside her father on his return . |
| 14 | If Lord Chandos commissioned operas from Handel , it was not for the public 's enjoyment . |
| 15 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 16 | An architect on holiday in the Scottish Highlands was out for an afternoon 's hill walking . |
| 17 | And it was n't for the others ' safety . |