Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've walked halfway across Berlin for the International Anti-War Youth Movement , and I 'm for a swim . ’ |
2 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
3 | But the next time Cecilia saw Daphne Bleech-Palmer Tina 's words came back to her and she was for a while shy and constrained . |
4 | ‘ Day is done ’ is of course another Shakespearean echo , like the Dark Tower : ‘ The bright day is done ’ , says Iras to Cleopatra , ‘ and we are for the dark ’ . |
5 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
6 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
7 | ‘ The only papers we seem to keep are bills , and they 're for the accountant , ’ Emily said . |
8 | It is for a Mr erm , Ridgeway , and it 's for a two storey extension to an existing house . |
9 | ‘ I 've set my face towards it , and it 's for the best . |
10 | And it 's for the children . |
11 | Of course these ideas will not be explored on each occasion and it is for the teacher to decide when it is right to pursue the child 's interest . |
12 | ‘ what a mortgagee is entitled to is that which is covered by the words ‘ costs charges and expenses properly incurred , ’ and it is for the taxing masters to say what these are … if the parties desire to depart from such a rule , they must express themselves in plain and unequivocal language . |
13 | This is a decision by the Natural Environment Research Council and it is for the best scientific reasons . |
14 | When no time is stipulated and it is for the buyer to collect , the seller must be ready to hand over the goods ( against payment ) to the buyer on demand ( provided made at a reasonable hour , section 29(5) ) at any time after the making of the contract . |
15 | It should also be noted that there is no covenant or warranty implied that the premises are legally fit for the use for which the tenant intends using them and it is for the tenant to satisfy itself in this regard . |
16 | Despite this , the House of Lords rejected any concept of commercial equivalence so that Lord Atkin held : It was contended that in all commercial contracts the question was whether there was " substantial " compliance with the contract : there must always be some margin and it is for the tribunal of fact to determine whether the margin is exceeded or not . |
17 | The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance . |
18 | But it is not , it is entertainment and it is for the people . ’ |
19 | This is a fax to OSEVA , capital O , capital S , capital E , capital V , capital A of Czechoslovakia and it is for the attention of Dipling capital D I P L stop capital I N G stop Josef J O S E F and the heading is your fax of the twelfth instant . |
20 | At the moment I 'm going to have it increased and it is for the , from Friday now . |
21 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
22 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
23 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
24 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
25 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
26 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |