Example sentences of "it be for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years .
2 I mean , when you look at it , it 's for a third party fire and theft .
3 it 's for the first three
4 It 's for the first christening .
5 It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry .
6 Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time .
7 In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 .
8 To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers .
9 But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member .
10 Well it was for the next two years .
11 Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques .
12 When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time .
13 This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th .
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