Example sentences of "[be] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 2 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 3 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 4 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 5 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 6 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 7 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 8 | The one on the right read ‘ These seats are only for use by those who can be classified as obese ’ and the one on the left read ‘ These seats are for those of very slim build only ’ . |
| 9 | Present plans are for this to be executed in January and February next year , and the bridge will provide the final link of roadways in this area . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 12 | It is I 'm looking for five er may be for each of those companies so that 's thirty people I could be looking for . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it 's going to be for all of us too ! ’ said Anne 's father thoughtfully . |
| 14 | But this time it will be for all of us to enjoy . |
| 15 | The standards of the middle-class life would never be for such as these , but pauperism was always near . |
| 16 | She has signed the long lease for the house inland , it will be for both of them , Deo volente , as she would say . |
| 17 | ‘ The longer they take to find Newley , the better it 'll be for both of us . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps a solution for the JTO 's that are finding difficulty in coping with the current situation would be for those of them that have both hard and grass courts at their club to run a two tier event , i.e. a Series tournament on the hard courts coupled with age group doubles and mixed on the grass . |
| 19 | This may well be for those of you who did in fact agree . |
| 20 | IBM 's PROF system for office workers is supposed to be for those with little or no experience of computers . |
| 21 | In conclusion Mr Mayor I repeat social housing to be effective , should be for those in greatest need , not an easy option . |
| 22 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 23 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |
| 24 | For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's for all of us , we share it out . ’ |
| 26 | And that 's for all of you . |
| 27 | Appointment 's for half past one she 's having |
| 28 | That 's for both of you |
| 29 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 30 | ‘ Her dearest wish is for all of this to blow over and life to return to normal . ’ |