Example sentences of "be for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The worst possible scenario would be for the civilian government to remain in a weak and powerless state , forcing us to maintain a military occupation in the city , ’ said Mr Roberts , who is dean of the law school at DePaul University in Chicago . |
| 2 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 3 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 4 | would you accept that , that should be for the financial year ? |
| 5 | After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really ! |
| 6 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 7 | She knew that her uncle 's death would radically change her position but did she , as she said , believe that the change would be for the worse ? |
| 8 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 9 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 10 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 11 | As noted above , there is some indication of the development of a rebuttable presumption that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts . |
| 12 | Yet , the very thesis that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts itself fashions the result that the court believes to be correct . |
| 13 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 14 | The deposits can be for the following terms : overnight , 1 week , or 1,2,3,4,5,6,9 or 12 months . |
| 15 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 16 | This need not necessarily be for the pure career-orientated reasons suggested by Niskanen — whether teachers or social workers have suggested policy changes that increase expenditure for pure self-interest or through the genuine altruistic belief that a greater supply of their services will benefit their society , such groups have occupied central roles in the expansion of their services |
| 17 | ( After the initial period future bills will be for the normal 13-weeks . ) |
| 18 | It will be for the privatised companies in due course to establish pensions arrangements for their employees . |
| 19 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 20 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 21 | ‘ You think it would be for the best then ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I know it 'll be for the best . |
| 23 | This gentle admonition did little to still the clamour of unilateralists in the churches ; yet there must surely be many Christians who have retained enough faith in divine Providence to believe that the world will not end unless God wills it and that , if He does , it will be for the best . |
| 24 | If by working with Roirbak it meant she had to leave Star Eye , it might be for the best . |
| 25 | As I shall say to her , it might all be for the best — now that he is king , I expect Edward will decide for himself whom to marry . ’ |
| 26 | For a brief moment , she actually thought he would defy the old man , but then her heart sank when he sheepishly replied , ‘ Perhaps it would be for the best , dear . ’ |
| 27 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 28 | In the end , however , this turned out to be for the best . |
| 29 | After all , it may be for the best . |
| 30 | ‘ It may be for the best , man , ’ Agnew was saying , ‘ though God knows I know how you must feel . |