Example sentences of "[conj] they be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 2 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 3 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 4 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 5 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 6 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 7 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 8 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 9 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 10 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 11 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 12 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 14 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 15 | 4.3 The above forecasts shall be given by the Company to the Supplier on the basis that they are for information only , and , while the Company will exercise all reasonable care in their compilation , the Company shall be under no obligation ( legal or otherwise ) to order all or any of or no more than the quantities shown in the said forecasts . |
| 16 | Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund . |
| 17 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 18 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 19 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 20 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 21 | ‘ The only papers we seem to keep are bills , and they 're for the accountant , ’ Emily said . |
| 22 | And they 're for your mother , not you ! ’ she declared , incensed that he should show so little consideration . |
| 23 | And they 're for |
| 24 | Now , all these things are not just for this woman , they were for you , and they 're for me . |
| 25 | Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient . |
| 26 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 27 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 28 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 29 | The purpose served by the two massive exhaust cowlings is less clear , but it 's unlikely Bugatti would test them if they were for styling reasons only . |
| 30 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |