Example sentences of "[adv] be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The instructions below are for the Osma system in which the joints , elbows and outlets have their own fixing holes . |
| 5 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 6 | It was also announced that ambassadors ' postings would henceforth be for a maximum of five years , and that their appointments would be approved by the council of USSR and republican foreign ministers . |
| 7 | Oreste had been spared and it could only be for a purpose . |
| 8 | But it should only be for a matter of months . ’ |
| 9 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 10 | The plan is that if we have to leave , and we 're still not sure , it will only be for a while . |
| 11 | If it did it might only be for a moment , the briefest of seconds , and she wanted Creggan h be ready for it . |
| 12 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 13 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 14 | It would , after all , only be for a week or so , after that they were due back at Purley . |
| 15 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 16 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 17 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 18 | That teachers — young , middle-aged , and those near retirement — can be asked to express how they really feel about curriculum developments can only be for the good . |
| 19 | These conditions may not only be for the vendor 's own benefit , but for his ’ successors in title ’ . |
| 20 | Section 1A(2) provides that a claim for damages for bereavement shall only be for the benefit of the wife or husband of the deceased and , where the deceased was a minor who was never married , for the benefit of his parents , if he was legitimate and of his mother if he was illegitimate . |
| 21 | This need not necessarily be for the pure career-orientated reasons suggested by Niskanen — whether teachers or social workers have suggested policy changes that increase expenditure for pure self-interest or through the genuine altruistic belief that a greater supply of their services will benefit their society , such groups have occupied central roles in the expansion of their services |
| 22 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 23 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 24 | Another reason I like Dorset so much is for the windsurfing . |
| 25 | The price quoted below is for the review machine , a 16Mb 486 with a 200Mb hard disk . |
| 26 | The other time that they used to sit down together was for a cup of tea or coffee at six in the morning , which was when the man got home , and often as not that was when Boy got home too . |
| 27 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |
| 28 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 29 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
| 30 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |