Example sentences of "[prep] [be] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't of been for the war I 'd have been a model ! |
| 2 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 3 | Because er it 's a that 's that 's just the way it has to be for the present , at the end of the |
| 4 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 5 | The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown . |
| 6 | Neither father nor mother can deprive themselves of their rights , except in the case of a separation agreement between husband and wife ; and even such an agreement will not be enforced by the court if the court considers it not to be for the child 's benefit . |
| 7 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |
| 8 | The answer to this decisive question resides not in a logic which compels , for example , all questions of law always to be for the courts or the tribunal . |
| 9 | Let us say the only settlors of the trust are Newco and Target , and both are excluded from benefiting under the trust , as they would have to be for the trust to qualify as an " employees share scheme " for the purposes of the Companies Act 1985 , and come within s75(6) Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 10 | The externalist can point out how difficult it is going to be for the internalist to provide a satisfying account of knowledge . |
| 11 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 12 | The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage . |
| 13 | The basis of this protection is that publication is deemed to be for the benefit of the public . |
| 14 | ( It could also be theft , where there is no need for the disposal to be for the benefit of another . ) |
| 15 | The other has to be for the BBC 's Pro-Celebrity Golf at Turnberry about five years ago . |
| 16 | The answer would seem to be for the purpose of ascertaining the possessor 's intention , and for deciding whether in all the circumstances , racial hatred is likely to be stirred up . |
| 17 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 18 | Then she thought how tiring it was going to be for the rest of her life trying to be the Wise Woman all the time . |
| 19 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 20 | Eldorado — reported to be for the chop when John Birt takes over as BBC director general in March — is changing tactics in a last ditch bid to win a reprieve . |
| 21 | Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers . |
| 22 | Well it 's got to be for the people there theirselves has n't it ? |
| 23 | One is said to be for the Lord and the other for Azazel . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the only alternative seems to be for the baby to be looked after by her mother , and she will go and visit in the evenings when her father has gone off to his night work . |
| 25 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 26 | A royal banner now bestowed respectability on a cause ; kings ' wars were assumed to be for the sake of peace , even when cripplingly expensive and increasingly savage . |
| 27 | The second possibility is that there may not be the clear difference between fiction and non-fiction for the young reader that then appears to be for the adult . |
| 28 | That 'll have to be for the sheets |
| 29 | In these circumstances , if the trust had been validly set up , then judgment would have to be for the beneficiary . |
| 30 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |