Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 2 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 3 | But I 'll still , I 'm for two . |
| 4 | I 'm for real — or what I call real , according to my limited sensory equipment . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'm for another round of toast , ’ said Chico . |
| 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 | Nor are foods which are for immediate consumption . |
| 8 | The last set of Home Office statistics for animal experiments which are for 1991 show that : |
| 9 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 10 | Here you are for best results treat autumn or spring . |
| 11 | If we do n't know where you are for twelve months or more we have to assume you have abandoned your child . |
| 12 | There you are for this er gent 's singles stone diamond ring this time . |
| 13 | You 're for real , or what we call real , according to our limited sensory equipment . |
| 14 | And reading those terrible things , that you 're for dead , and you have to get up at so many different times . |
| 15 | The attack was stepped up by Raghib Ahsan , of Birmingham Ladywood , who told the conference : ‘ We are offered scraps from the masters ’ table , and hungry as we are for black representation , our response must be to spit them out . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | At the sampling stage they are for practical reasons equally important , for it is hard to see how investigators could proceed without some recourse to demographic categories such as class , sex , or ethnicity . |
| 18 | Of course they are for internal consideration only , but because there is the intention of some discussion at June CED Conference on Government Joint Funding and on Resource Sharing , I thought these two papers might profitably be circulated as background material . |
| 19 | His principle is to maintain the gardens and grounds as they are for all the residents , so that from outside it is not apparent that the building has been divided up . |
| 20 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 21 | They are for that area on the Greater York study . |
| 22 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 23 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 24 | Every day couples meet who are amazed at how right they are for each other — proof that Dateline works ! |
| 25 | Now they are for small children to celebrate occasionally . |
| 26 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 27 | Because they occupy key positions in primary care , they are for most people the most accessible caring profession , and psychiatry is considered by doctors to be primarily their occupational territory . |
| 28 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 29 | er everybody stays as they are for three or six months . |
| 30 | Every organization has these unofficial groups , and research has shown how important they are for organizational effectiveness . |