Example sentences of "[pron] [be] for [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
2 | ‘ Well , I 'm for another round of toast , ’ said Chico . |
3 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
4 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
5 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
6 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
7 | Karen Bridge may elect to ride True Dowry in the Novice Riders ' race , which is for those who have not ridden more than five winners . |
8 | It is indeed actually the paradox that Fred Hoyle has just rediscovered erm which is for those of us who have been teaching it to our undergraduates for thirty years . |
9 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
10 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
11 | When United held the upper hand , which was for most of the first half , they were more dominant than Aberdeen were after the interval . |
12 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
13 | There you are for this er gent 's singles stone diamond ring this time . |
14 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
15 | She 's for this house . |
16 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
17 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
18 | We have now a Secretary of State for Scotland who is for all practical purposes a Scottish Prime Minister . |
19 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
20 | The trial of Mohammed Amadou Cissé , who was for many years the Minister of State in charge of Security and personal adviser to former President Mathieu Kérékou , began on July 31 . |
21 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
22 | ‘ THIS ONE 's for all the people in the audience who are gon na talk to me after the show , ’ beams singing Roger Daltrey lookalike Jonti . |
23 | ‘ This one 's for all the ladies in the house ! ’ |
24 | It is true that there are some fringe benefits available to farm workers ( as there are for many occupational groups ) , but their value amounted to only an estimated £1 per week for free food and a net £2 per week for low-rent tied cottages ( Brown and Winyard 1975 ) . |
25 | What possible justification could there be for such coldness ? |
26 | Indeed , if the inhibition exists , what need could there be for such a prohibition ? |
27 | What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ? |
28 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
29 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
30 | What justification can there be for another academic article at such a moment ? |