Example sentences of "[prep] [be] for the " in BNC.

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1 If it had n't of been for the war I 'd have been a model !
2 Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 .
3 Then comes the fun of making the pattern — and do make sure that the dimensions you are going to work to are for the full pattern and not the kite frame shape .
4 Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’
5 He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones .
6 Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers .
7 The common response to predator attack appears to be for the cetaceans to flee , often silently , having first formed a tight group if they can .
8 Neither father nor mother can deprive themselves of their rights , except in the case of a separation agreement between husband and wife ; and even such an agreement will not be enforced by the court if the court considers it not to be for the child 's benefit .
9 One is said to be for the Lord and the other for Azazel .
10 The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown .
11 So , gratitude it has to be for the glimpse of a hornbeam 's golden rain of catkin pollen in a sheltered copse where , among primroses and the first bluebells , sorrel shows its delicate pink flowers and ( useful in salads ) triple leaflets , which Saint Patrick used to demonstrate the nature of the Trinity .
12 The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane .
13 Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets .
14 The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) .
15 In these circumstances , if the trust had been validly set up , then judgment would have to be for the beneficiary .
16 After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really !
17 The second possibility is that there may not be the clear difference between fiction and non-fiction for the young reader that then appears to be for the adult .
18 But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us .
19 The other has to be for the BBC 's Pro-Celebrity Golf at Turnberry about five years ago .
20 Then she thought how tiring it was going to be for the rest of her life trying to be the Wise Woman all the time .
21 The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage .
22 The coverage seemed to be for the exclusive benefit of the Tory Party .
23 Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside .
24 When the unions took industrial action against a no-strike clause in the latest contract proposals , Murdoch moved production of his papers overnight to the plant at Wapping — previously said to be for the News of the World alone .
25 A royal banner now bestowed respectability on a cause ; kings ' wars were assumed to be for the sake of peace , even when cripplingly expensive and increasingly savage .
26 During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better .
27 However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region .
28 You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) .
29 Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate .
30 The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution .
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