Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Tories elected for a fourth successive term , the politics of the opposition are obviously up for radical examination . |
| 2 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
| 3 | Y'know , I ca n't deal with things ideologically , I am only here for practical information ’ . |
| 4 | Cormorants are only there for one reason : the lake is filled with fish . |
| 5 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 6 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 7 | But we have been together now for 12 matches on tour , as well as facing New Zealand and world champions Australia . |
| 8 | We 've been together now for 40 years and … |
| 9 | THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much . |
| 10 | But er who knows we 're probably here for another two years , we might find a dead body somewhere . |
| 11 | I know you 're now up for another anchor job . |
| 12 | Charles Keeping 's illustrations are clearly not for young children but for older children who are , among other things , coming to terms with violence and cruelty in our age . |
| 13 | ’ It may be all right for those who choose happily , but think of the mistakes that could be avoided if people had a little help . |
| 14 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 15 | There is a great excitement at the opening of a brand new store , and this must be especially so for former staff who remember the old days . |
| 16 | very short — it 's sunday and i 'm just here for ten minutes . |
| 17 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 18 | pass one of these round each and if , there 's plenty here so if you 've got any friends , neighbours that ca n't be here tonight for any reason then feel free to take one afterwards and , well it would n't bother me if I had none to take back . |
| 19 | ‘ But one will be quite enough for most of you ’ |
| 20 | Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours , but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport . |
| 21 | The last matter relates to some possible supposed uncertainty about the plaintiff 's further education at school , as I have already noted it is expected that the plaintiff will remain at school until he is nineteen , he has been there now for three years . |
| 22 | ‘ But you were only away for ten minutes . ’ |
| 23 | They were only together for this term : after that — who knows ? |
| 24 | We were only there for twenty-four hours , working throughout the night . |
| 25 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |
| 26 | In Christchurch we were fortunate in having a house to go to ; the Scraggs , friends of the Bakers , were away overseas for 3 weeks and were happy for us to ‘ sit ’ the house for them . |
| 27 | In the Test , on a less malign pitch than in Kingston , he was out fourth ball , and three wickets were soon down for 30 . |
| 28 | It was certainly a convincing win but the warning signs were already there for all to see : despite the forwards winning a barrel-load of good possession , the Scottish three-quarters failed to score a single try at home in front of a vociferous support and against a decrepit Welsh side . |
| 29 | Franklin D Roosevelt found that happy days were here again for 30 years with his lover Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd . |
| 30 | A similar tendency was observed in in-service B.Eds , which were almost entirely for Primary teachers . |