Example sentences of "be [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | Not all of these differences are necessarily for the worse , but the last four mentioned clearly are . |
| 4 | Personally I am all for the guilty being run to ground . |
| 5 | The youngest and the prettiest are naturally for the exclusive use of the bourgeoisie . |
| 6 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 7 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 8 | We are in for the long-term benefits which imply a long-term strategy and involvement ’ . |
| 9 | And with Robert Jones — another triumphant Lion of '89 — the ace in the Welsh scheme , Australia are in for the biggest examination of their status since they acquired it at Twickenham last year . |
| 10 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 11 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 12 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 13 | Let's say , straight away , that these are not for the faint hearted , or the poorly-maintained helicopter . |
| 14 | I have no sexual tastes , those are just for the low classes . |
| 15 | Whenever we 're out together they wo n't go near a food shop , even if we 're out for the whole day . |
| 16 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 17 | Mature students usually end up doing better — they 're there for the right reasons . ’ |
| 18 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 19 | First , every Act of Parliament , in effect , says that if a certain state of facts exists the tribunal may do a certain thing ; those facts are always for the relative decision of the tribunal . |
| 20 | Nizan 's preferences are clearly for the second and third hypotheses which interconnect . |
| 21 | They are also for the same reason very suitable for lower ability pupils or for multicultural groups , and can be a useful leveller . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 23 | Finally , plans are underway for the head office of Enterprise Training to move to Sidcup . |
| 24 | and over in Gloucester tomorrow seconds are out for the western counties schools championships at the Beaufort School in Tuffley |
| 25 | DON T BE MISLED , whether Socialists run in their true colours , or in an underhand way as ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ , they are out for the same end , and your only remedy is to VOTE THEM DOWN . |
| 26 | The covenant must benefit the land and not be merely for the personal benefit of the person claiming the benefit of the covenant . |
| 27 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 28 | The big industrial company , says Mr Chandler , has been the engine of economic growth for the past 100 years , and will continue to be so for the next 100 . |
| 29 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 30 | I 'm all for the free market economy.i Maxham hobbled into the hall . |