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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 14 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 15 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 16 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 17 | And it 's all about : Who is for the high jump in Rome ? |
| 18 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 19 | Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move , this one is for an indefinite period . |
| 20 | One was for an initial payment of £2,053.27 . |
| 21 | Do you know how many role models there are for a young mouse ? |
| 22 | And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ? |
| 23 | What other reason may there be for the watertable sometimes rising rapidly ? |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | erm well I mean there are some MPs any day of the week will do you know there anybody 's for a good meal but erm |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 30 | In the fifth century there was for a Greek state only one major source of income apart from taxing one 's own citizens or allies : Persia . |