Example sentences of "[pron] [be] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 3 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 4 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 5 | Work in progress which is for a specific contract or customer order would not require provisions unless circumstances so indicated . |
| 6 | The definition of non-equity shares is widely drawn , so that any right to a dividend or to a redemption payment which is for a limited amount will have the effect that the shares will be considered non-equity shares , irrespective of the other rights they may enjoy . |
| 7 | Now I find that nonsense , because the planning committee have just approved a major development station , which is for a 150 bed hotel on a housing development . |
| 8 | He can smell nothing , which is for the best . |
| 9 | A purpose which is for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons ( other than a State institution ) is not charitable , although it results in an indirect benefit to the community . |
| 10 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 11 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 12 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 13 | Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum . |
| 14 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 15 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 16 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 17 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 18 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 20 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 21 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 22 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 23 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 24 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 25 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 26 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 27 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 28 | And it 's all about : Who is for the high jump in Rome ? |
| 29 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 30 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |