Example sentences of "[prep] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't of been for the war I 'd have been a model ! |
| 2 | This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils . |
| 3 | For I was also an episode in someone else 's narrative , not my own person , my mother 's child , and brought into being for a particular purpose . |
| 4 | To meet objections to this , the Commission added that an individual should only be held where , quite apart from being for an ‘ arrestable offence ’ , the arrest was also ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 5 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 6 | Until the first new pay and conditions order is made under the new Act , the 1987 Act needs to be kept in being for a very short time for a very specific and limited purpose to ensure that all teachers continue to be covered by the existing pay and conditions order made under that Act . |
| 7 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The only proviso is that your holiday has to be for a minimum of five nights . |
| 12 | If the hat is to be for a grown-up , measure a grown-up 's head , again adding 5cms for overlap , and cut the tissue paper to this size . |
| 13 | Originally scheduled to be for a morning only , the response was so enthusiastic that the meeting grew to an all-day event with a full billing of committed speakers . |
| 14 | Alas for them , Faber was not in Santa 's sack this year , and is unlikely to be for a long while . |
| 15 | But then it would need to be for a man of his size to stretch out in comfort . |
| 16 | ‘ Why is it that when I do fall , it has to be for a termagant who drives me out of my head ? |
| 17 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 18 | First , how large does a sample have to be for a given population ? |
| 19 | Sir , in June nineteen ninety two Mrs Brown er successfully obtained temporary work working for the Nottingham Community Hospice as a nursing auxiliary and the work was initially intended to be for a period of about three months . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Neither case is an authority on how serious a discrepancy or inaccuracy has to be for a challenge on the ground of mistake to succeed . |
| 22 | But then it was only going to be for a matter of weeks , so what did it matter anyway ? |
| 23 | ‘ If it should rain , it 's not going to be for a very long time . ’ |
| 24 | It was only to be for a matter of months . |
| 25 | They used to be for a while . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers . |
| 29 | The common response to predator attack appears to be for the cetaceans to flee , often silently , having first formed a tight group if they can . |
| 30 | Neither father nor mother can deprive themselves of their rights , except in the case of a separation agreement between husband and wife ; and even such an agreement will not be enforced by the court if the court considers it not to be for the child 's benefit . |