Example sentences of "to be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then comes the fun of making the pattern — and do make sure that the dimensions you are going to work to are for the full pattern and not the kite frame shape . |
| 2 | To be for a democratic united Europe means to be unambiguously against its current economic reality — and most immediately against the policies dictated by the ERM . |
| 3 | Alas for them , Faber was not in Santa 's sack this year , and is unlikely to be for a long while . |
| 4 | As mortgages tend to be for a long term and in view of the fact that 75% of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding it is reasonable to classify this as a long-term liability . |
| 5 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 6 | First , how large does a sample have to be for a given population ? |
| 7 | Though McNish would not be drawn on the exact reasons for the call , it is believed to be for the vacant post of team test driver and understudy for Michael Schumacher and Riccardo Patrese . |
| 8 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 9 | In the end , however , this turned out to be for the best . |
| 10 | Erm er the costing involves we will just say we ought to be for the first fortnight . |
| 11 | Maidstone 's the place to be for the first time ever , all four candidates are female . |
| 12 | The coverage seemed to be for the exclusive benefit of the Tory Party . |
| 13 | Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’ |
| 14 | The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane . |
| 15 | During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better . |
| 16 | And at first glance , these promise to be for the better . |
| 17 | The Russian Congress , constituted as a result of elections in March [ see p. 37322 , where the elections are stated wrongly to be for the Russian Supreme Soviet ] and comprising 1,068 deputies , convened on May 16 . |
| 18 | After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really ! |
| 19 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
| 20 | Since the Queen was more spiderlike than humanoid in form , ‘ she ’ could safely be shown in more detail and had to be for the climactic battle , Queen versus Ripley plus power loader . |
| 21 | Different people solving slightly different problems in separate rooms create no difficulty — until they come to communicate their solutions , which are assumed to be for the same problem . |
| 22 | He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones . |
| 23 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 24 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 25 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 26 | Thus the Commission saw these two vital controls on police power : the arrest had to be for an imprisonable offence and it had also , in addition to this , to be ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 27 | Traditional music and hymnody are seen to be for an older audience . |
| 28 | Along with alterations to the lineout , the amendment is to be for an experimental twelve months only . |
| 29 | What it essentially boiled down to was for a suitable building to be found in Moscow , while Costakis would provide the resources and materials necessary for the building 's restoration . |