Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples given below are for the summer of 1979 , when interest rates were lower than while this report was being written ( with a bank base rate of 14 per cent in summer 1979 , compared with 17 per cent in spring 1980 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 4 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 5 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 6 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |
| 7 | The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ . |
| 8 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 9 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 10 | But the lads have been tremendous , and there 's a buzz around the club now all we want now is for them to show the same attitude tonight . ’ |
| 11 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 12 | The only types of insurance that I have come across are for horse owners wishing to obtain insurance for their own horse . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 15 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 16 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 17 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 18 | ( The prices shown below are for yarns only . ) |
| 19 | Note that the values which have been supplied above are for a typical medium-sized installation . |
| 20 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 21 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 22 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 23 | All that is needed now is for you all to take advantage of this week of Medau , either as a daily visitor , or residentially . |
| 24 | Now this techniques we 've been using here is for you can use that for any straight line graph . |
| 25 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 26 | All that is left now is for you to move in . |
| 27 | ‘ The only thing that 's left now is for me to kiss you and wish you a very good night . ’ |
| 28 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 29 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 30 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |