Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best that could be for the the Simpson woman is that at least when they had married , she stuck to him right to his death . |
| 2 | The only way to avoid that would be for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give the health service an open-ended budget . |
| 3 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 4 | She was in limbo and would be for the rest of her life , if you could call it a life , dragging out its weary length with no more great joys or fearful griefs for her , for her blood was running too thin to bear them . |
| 5 | This account could only be drawn on when it had reached an estimated $1,000 million and would be for the purpose of purchasing the external debt bonds of Argentina 's creditor banks . |
| 6 | The first two vehicles fitted-out will be based on the new Mark III sleeping cars and will be for the use of members of the Royal Household and other support staff . |
| 7 | And these are matters that we are , and will be for the future the immediate future and perhaps for the more distant future thoroughly engaged upon because there are very deep questions here and the sacramental one hinges upon the ecclesial one . |
| 8 | By the Land Registration Act 1925 ( s70(1) ) : All registered land shall … be deemed to be subject to such of the following overriding interests as may be for the time being subsisting in reference thereto . |