Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 The restless shifting tides of the US computer industry ensure that people may at times be down , but few are out for long , and out of the gathering gloom of the Everex Systems Inc Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings has sprung a new company , also in Fremont , California , raring to make its mark .
2 Weeks later , half were downstairs for the more tuneful brew mixed up by various members of the Flying DJ family .
3 If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man …
4 This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities .
5 This is both for practical reasons and as a matter of public policy .
6 This is generally for a set sum , over an agreed period , during which you sill pay back the capital and the interest : the rate of interest is fixed at the time you take out the loan , so your monthly repayments never change .
7 If Veblen 's book continues to be read this is partly for its unconscious humour but partly for the comfort , however misplaced , which it offers to those still mesmerized by egalitarian ideas .
8 Elsewhere prisoners have restored a range of vintage farm machinery … this is strictly for show … but the prison horse is kept busy carrying hay.Leyhill earns its keep by providing food for jails throughout the south west … these glasshouses produce eight tons of tomatoes a week.Plants for displays at other prisons are also propagated under glass , together with the half a million bedding plants for use at Leyhill and elsewhere .
9 This is not for want of official concern by education commissions , curriculum projects and national ministries .
10 This is not for us less honourable than administration : indeed it is more exacting for it is simple to give orders , but
11 This is not for us fishkeepers , so it is fortunate that no persuasion is required to adapt to my typical menu , of beefheart , lancefish , mussels , feeder shrimps , worms and just about any other meat-based food .
12 ‘ Listen , Jack , this is not for us … ’
13 By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them .
14 Her own refrain went : This is not for me .
15 that their all goody goody and then later on you think , this is not for me
16 This is not for er any sort of This i I 'm doing this talk here for erm Stanley 's daughter who 's at er college , and she likes to hear the sound of my voice when I 'm sober .
17 I must state this is not for the fur .
18 This is not for the Mamur Zapt . ’
19 This is not for your stone .
20 This is just for the trade , still all very much in the air , ’ she warned , ‘ and not the trade at large .
21 ‘ You do n't think this is just for him , do you ? ’
22 Although this is just for fun , lets keep it realistic , I cant see them swapping Wright or Ruddock for example .
23 I happen to like Hamman … but I think this is just for publicity or severe delusions of grandeur .
24 Oh I see this is just for different names of the different in-house companies
25 this is just for your test when they ask you
26 No , this is this is just for changing the stations .
27 Sorry forgive me , this is the whole point , this is just for your information what has happened in the past , we 're now looking at , looking for a new
28 This is just for the courtyard and these shrubs and things
29 This is n't for any covert reason , it just happens that most of the BBC 's committee rooms are down there !
30 This is n't for you , the world is n't for you ’ . ’
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