Example sentences of "to be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really ! |
| 32 | The second possibility is that there may not be the clear difference between fiction and non-fiction for the young reader that then appears to be for the adult . |
| 33 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 34 | The other has to be for the BBC 's Pro-Celebrity Golf at Turnberry about five years ago . |
| 35 | Then she thought how tiring it was going to be for the rest of her life trying to be the Wise Woman all the time . |
| 36 | The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage . |
| 37 | The coverage seemed to be for the exclusive benefit of the Tory Party . |
| 38 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 39 | When the unions took industrial action against a no-strike clause in the latest contract proposals , Murdoch moved production of his papers overnight to the plant at Wapping — previously said to be for the News of the World alone . |
| 40 | A royal banner now bestowed respectability on a cause ; kings ' wars were assumed to be for the sake of peace , even when cripplingly expensive and increasingly savage . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 43 | 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 ) . |
| 44 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 45 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
| 46 | The basis of this protection is that publication is deemed to be for the benefit of the public . |
| 47 | The externalist can point out how difficult it is going to be for the internalist to provide a satisfying account of knowledge . |
| 48 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |
| 49 | These can not be defined prespecifically in behavioural terms as they would have to be for the tests . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Meanwhile , the only alternative seems to be for the baby to be looked after by her mother , and she will go and visit in the evenings when her father has gone off to his night work . |
| 52 | Well it 's got to be for the people there theirselves has n't it ? |
| 53 | In the end , however , this turned out to be for the best . |
| 54 | The answer to this decisive question resides not in a logic which compels , for example , all questions of law always to be for the courts or the tribunal . |
| 55 | The answer would seem to be for the purpose of ascertaining the possessor 's intention , and for deciding whether in all the circumstances , racial hatred is likely to be stirred up . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 58 | Eldorado — reported to be for the chop when John Birt takes over as BBC director general in March — is changing tactics in a last ditch bid to win a reprieve . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Wins for both teams are essential if they want their Jordanstown battle next Thursday to be for the Under 25 championship trophy . |