Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 32 | One way of playing it is for the person who gets back first to get one point and it can be the first team to ten . |
| 33 | ‘ But when push comes to shove , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ it 's a lot easier to say you 're for the death penalty than to actually kill people . |
| 34 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 35 | If a covenant is contested it is for the party seeking to rely on the covenant to prove its reasonableness ( see Rex Stewart Jeffries Parker Ginsberg v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 ) . |
| 36 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 37 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 38 | Close colleagues who had decided he had to go said it was for the ‘ greater good ’ of the party . |
| 39 | The judge refused to grant an injunction , and said it was for the valuer to decide whether to proceed or not , and that the president of the RICS owed no duty to the parties not to make an appointment . |
| 40 | In his summing-up , the judge said it was for the jury to decide if Christopher How had been dishonest . |
| 41 | A little fat guy came in and said he was for the card game in Room 42 . |
| 42 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 43 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 44 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 45 | Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children , but only where it can clearly be shown that the interests of the children require it should the court refuse to order their return . |
| 46 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 47 | Of course she could say it was for the children , as people always did … |
| 48 | Meanwhile , DEC watcher Terry Shannon of Gander Resources claims DEC taped out an Alpha Lite LC ( for low cost ) chip last month and believes it is for the so-called Triumph Alpha PC which he says is scheduled to move next March . |