Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | Not all of these differences are necessarily for the worse , but the last four mentioned clearly are . |
| 4 | These proposals are basically for the completion of the earlier main line proposals of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . ) |
| 5 | Personally I am all for the guilty being run to ground . |
| 6 | The youngest and the prettiest are naturally for the exclusive use of the bourgeoisie . |
| 7 | Because of this , foreign currency mortgages , which are being sold very heavily at the moment by financial intermediaries ( linked to banks and other financial institutions which are providing the funds ) , are only for the financially sophisticated . |
| 8 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 9 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 10 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 11 | Rose and myself are away for the day . ’ |
| 12 | The advantages of providing suitable extinguishers in lifts which are normally for the retrieval of goods has already been mentioned . |
| 13 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 14 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 15 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 16 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 17 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 18 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 19 | I have no sexual tastes , those are just for the low classes . |
| 20 | my Lord that these of course are just for the |
| 21 | they 're , what they er , they 're just for the , our age group you know |
| 22 | They 're away for the weekend . ’ |
| 23 | They 're here for the music and to enjoy themselves . ’ |
| 24 | Hattori , whose English was poor , smiled broadly and said , ‘ We 're here for the party . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 26 | You 're here for the paintings , for Kemp ? |
| 27 | Mature students usually end up doing better — they 're there for the right reasons . ’ |
| 28 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 29 | First , every Act of Parliament , in effect , says that if a certain state of facts exists the tribunal may do a certain thing ; those facts are always for the relative decision of the tribunal . |
| 30 | These are usually for the under 3's , and are found in Church Halls or private houses . |