Example sentences of "be for [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 2 | IF THE PLAN has been for the Europeans not to show their strongest hands in the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn , which takes its name from one of the sweeping bends in the Mississipi River , much has gone according to plan . |
| 3 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 4 | While the PRE has halted Mozambique 's rapid economic decline since the early 1980s , there have been doubts about how appropriate its policies are for a country still at war . |
| 5 | Now planning councillors on both side of the Thames will have to consider if the plans are for a bridge too far |
| 6 | Most placements of agency secretarial/office staff are for a period as short as two weeks or less , albeit subject to extension , but the assignments advertised for computer staff are of three months , or more often six months and sometimes one year or even two year duration , again subject to extension . |
| 7 | These figures are for the fibres alone . |
| 8 | Any disregard of this may provide the minority shareholders with a claim under s459 Companies Act 1985 , under which they may complain against resolutions of the company which are for the benefit not of the company as a whole , but of the majority shareholders alone . |
| 9 | Basically we want to do the job as fast as possible , and er our feelings are for the people back at . |
| 10 | so you might as well fill in the gaps whenever you can er they 're for a day out that 's the trouble they 're not , they 're not there for a , they 're not |
| 11 | Reckon they 're for the kids really are n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm for the dustbin now ? ’ she said . |
| 13 | Going about her daily routine , Wilson was dry-eyed , as she knew Mrs Browning would be for a while yet . |
| 14 | Originally scheduled to be for a morning only , the response was so enthusiastic that the meeting grew to an all-day event with a full billing of committed speakers . |
| 15 | A further question that arises ( and that might be perceived on the face of this problem ) is whether dismissal by the Crown can only be for misbehaviour in office or whether it can be for an offence not related to judicial office or affecting judicial ability . |
| 16 | ( v ) Pupils should be taught about the different functions of written language : that writing can be for the writer alone ; it can be addressed to a known reader ; or it can be written for a large and unknown audience . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 18 | Well it 's got to be for the people there theirselves has n't it ? |
| 19 | Lol , a former council brickie , said : ‘ Boxing has been wonderful for me and it can be for the kids too . |
| 20 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 21 | The exceptions were for the square where performance in the two tasks was about the same and for the rhombus where " diamond " was accepted as a response to the naming task . |
| 22 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 23 | Although he extols the yellow of spring , the green of summer , and ‘ the changling dresses of autumnal tints ’ ; these were for the sightseers not the painter . |
| 24 | Yes erm , it 's a day out , an afternoon out it 's for a day out your gon na |
| 25 | That 's for the cops now but they do n't seem to be worried . |
| 26 | Well that 's for the isomers anyway is n't it ? |
| 27 | If the account is for a child under seven , you must identify yourself and produce the child 's birth certificate . |
| 28 | I ask Rachel what kind of work there is for a woman alone with two kids . |
| 29 | You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’ |
| 30 | It is for the judge alone to determine facts upon which the admissibility of evidence depends and , similarly , it must be for him to satisfy himself as to matters involved in an application to stay because of abuse or , as the judge preferred , ‘ misuse ’ — of process . |