Example sentences of "[vb mod] be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 32 | The licence may be for a fixed , perhaps renewable , period of time or there may be no mention of duration , in which case it can be assumed that the licence will last as long as the software is subject to copyright protection . |
| 33 | Schedules are generally constructed over a year , which is usually the client 's short-term planning cycle , but may be for a single seasonal burst . |
| 34 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 35 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 36 | After all , it may be for the best . |
| 37 | ‘ It may be for the best , man , ’ Agnew was saying , ‘ though God knows I know how you must feel . |
| 38 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 39 | This would apply only to a juvenile already in care of a local authority and then found guilty of a further imprisonable offence , and would be for a fixed period of not more than six months . |
| 40 | The best possible solution , as far as Loretta was concerned , would be for a total stranger to be revealed as the murderer . |
| 41 | If he ever left Everton now it would be for a modest fee . |
| 42 | The focus would move from the determination of who is legally right and from consideration of the reasonableness of the employer 's action in the circumstances of the individual dismissal to the location of the dispute firmly in the realms of industrial relations , rather than employment law , where the search would be for a workable and acceptable solution which took account of the wider context . |
| 43 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 44 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 45 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 46 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 47 | ‘ You think it would be for the best then ? ’ |
| 48 | For a brief moment , she actually thought he would defy the old man , but then her heart sank when he sheepishly replied , ‘ Perhaps it would be for the best , dear . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I truly feel it would be for the best . ’ |
| 50 | She knew that her uncle 's death would radically change her position but did she , as she said , believe that the change would be for the worse ? |
| 51 | ‘ The worst possible scenario would be for the civilian government to remain in a weak and powerless state , forcing us to maintain a military occupation in the city , ’ said Mr Roberts , who is dean of the law school at DePaul University in Chicago . |
| 52 | But these would be for the general benefit , not for the worse . |
| 53 | 1791 The Gentlemen of the Parish of Kildaltan represent that the Church is much Injured by the Schools being kept therein and that it would be for the General benifit of the Parish to have a School House Built seperate from the Church … appoint a Committee for fixing the Stance of the School House and getting the same Built . |
| 54 | Leaving aside the problem of time order in the research , and whether their findings do indeed reveal genuine causal effects of coping behaviour , it is unclear how relevant such strategies would be for the general run of threatening events . |
| 55 | Tonight , if the bombers came , it would be for the seventh night in a row ; a whole week without sleep . |
| 56 | Front seats would be for the Black , |
| 57 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 58 | For 30 per cent this would be for the first time , yet almost half our sample are installing an additional or replacement shower . |
| 59 | and of course if you want to include a small element this year a greater element would be for the new open plan . |
| 60 | Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods . |