Example sentences of "[pron] [be] for the [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 | 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 . |
| 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 | He can smell nothing , which is for the best . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 11 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 12 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 13 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 14 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 15 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 18 | And it 's all about : Who is for the high jump in Rome ? |
| 19 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 20 | He set forth an idealistic view of a society in which all privilege would be done away with , and in which wealth and power would be fairly shared , on the basis of competitive public examinations with General Essay papers on EITHER Natural Justice OR ‘ Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds . ’ |
| 21 | One of the most distressing factors is the ‘ jollying up ’ attitude of staff and their expectations that the patients and their families will collude with the ritual pretence that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds . |
| 22 | If everything is for the best in Castlereagh , why are there so many out-of-court settlements in actions for damages brought by former detainees ? |
| 23 | Mind you , I 'm not saying everything 's for the worse . |
| 24 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 25 | What other reason may there be for the watertable sometimes rising rapidly ? |
| 26 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 27 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 28 | Among the free churches there is no set system of redundancy procedure as there is for the Anglican Church , so that it may be for officials from the local congregation to decide if and how to dispose of vacant church property . |
| 29 | There is no surviving detailed assessment of income for the eleventh-century papacy as there is for the English kings in the great Domesday Book of 1086 . |
| 30 | The evidence produced by the major enquiries which took place between 1816 and the 1840s has been variously treated by historians , but what little evidence there is for the earlier mills seems uniformly bleak . |