Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [be] for " in BNC.

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1 I conducted the First Symphony during the war but the first two symphonies have always been for me a little to close to Tchaikovsky .
2 Now , the much-repeated phrase is : ‘ The past 40 years have all been for nought ’ .
3 All figures quoted below are for weekly payments .
4 ( The prices shown below are for yarns only . )
5 His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom .
6 The examples given below are for the summer of 1979 , when interest rates were lower than while this report was being written ( with a bank base rate of 14 per cent in summer 1979 , compared with 17 per cent in spring 1980 ) .
7 Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates .
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