Example sentences of "[be] for this [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't think they have been for this last |
| 2 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 3 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 4 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 5 | When the background is a single colour , this is a simple matter , as it is for this yellow crab spider crouching in wait for a prey to arrive on the marigold flower . |
| 6 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 7 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 8 | It was for this very reason that banks , prior to the 1970s , avoided such risky long-term lending and concentrated on short-term trade financing . |
| 9 | It was for this same reason that José Antonio Primo de Rivera , while supporting the military rising , had harboured serious doubts as to what might be the fate of his party in the event of a triumph by the military . |