Example sentences of "[adv] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oreste had been spared and it could only be for a purpose . |
| 4 | But it should only be for a matter of months . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The plan is that if we have to leave , and we 're still not sure , it will only be for a while . |
| 7 | If it did it might only be for a moment , the briefest of seconds , and she wanted Creggan h be ready for it . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would , after all , only be for a week or so , after that they were due back at Purley . |
| 11 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These conditions may not only be for the vendor 's own benefit , but for his ’ successors in title ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The best solution might thus be for the centre bollard to be held in place with a padlock , for which he will have a key . |
| 21 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 22 | Moreover , the evaluation of reasonableness will normally be for the trial judge : an appellate court will rarely interfere unless satisfied that the original decision " proceeded on some erroneous principle or was plainly and obviously wrong " ( Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , per Lord Bridge ) . |
| 23 | You can generally borrow up to 90% of the value of the new home , and you can borrow as much as three times you salary : the loan will usually be for a maximum of 25 years . |
| 24 | An order need not always be for the maximum period . |
| 25 | The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . " |
| 26 | In order to be legal a lease must also be for a term of years absolute , according to s. 1(1) ( b ) , Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 27 | It may also be for the benefit of the institution to state that of the patients discharged , cured and remaining in the House three were afflicted with that most excruciating complaint , the stone … the operation has been thrice successfully performed . |
| 28 | It may also be for the convenience of the House to know that , on Friday 8 November , there will be a debate on the environment , on a motion for the Adjournment of the House . |
| 29 | Since risk does not pass till delivery , in most cases , then any damage in transit will automatically be for the account of the seller . |
| 30 | If this project falls , it is not for purely logical reasons ; it will rather be for the more interesting reason that the right sort of truths do not exist about human nature . |