Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Novell 's network products are mostly for PCs , but the next few years will see them move into the traditional minicomputer market with support for a number of minicomputer systems , thus re-enforcing their dominance . |
| 2 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 3 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 4 | They believe that the miserly increases being made now are enough for pensioners . |
| 5 | The times are less for youngsters under 17 years of age . |
| 6 | They are so for robbers too . |
| 7 | These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains ' and coaches ' mumbled no-comments , and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men . |
| 8 | These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains ' and coaches ' mumbled no-comments , and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men . |
| 9 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 11 | But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her |
| 12 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
| 13 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 14 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 15 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 16 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 17 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 18 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 19 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 20 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 21 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 22 | Well they 're only for sides , you know , I 'm , I 'm doing them like er |
| 23 | Whatever , whatever they are , no , you 've got tabs there , but I 'm saying do n't use those up yet , they 're not tabs for stuff that 's going to be behind , they 're actually for pages and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 25 | Many beehives have been destroyed by spray drift landing on the flowers from which bees collect pollen ; timber treated with the household chemicals lindane and dieldrin ( now banned from use ) is extremely toxic to bats and continues to be so for decades after treatment , and many bat colonies have been eliminated in this way . |
| 26 | There were a lot of very poor men also in a number of these trades who were not originally covered by the legislation , and that 's where the erm the developments have , have come from since then , the dynamic of the policy , because the argument over whether it should be only for women rebounded on them , and people said , ‘ No , it should n't ’ , so for a while the legislation was all scrapped and then they started again , and now the Americans have much more comprehensive laws than we do . |
| 27 | If the plaintiff is under a disability , the interim payment will usually be only for sums needed by the next friend to maintain the plaintiff and cover expenses until trial . |
| 28 | I 'm all for women 's lib . ’ |
| 29 | Now I 'm all for traditions . |
| 30 | I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other . |