Example sentences of "[prep] be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One is said to be for the Lord and the other for Azazel . |
| 7 | The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | In these circumstances , if the trust had been validly set up , then judgment would have to be for the beneficiary . |
| 13 | After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 16 | The other has to be for the BBC 's Pro-Celebrity Golf at Turnberry about five years ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage . |
| 19 | The coverage seemed to be for the exclusive benefit of the Tory Party . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 27 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
| 28 | The basis of this protection is that publication is deemed to be for the benefit of the public . |
| 29 | The externalist can point out how difficult it is going to be for the internalist to provide a satisfying account of knowledge . |
| 30 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |