Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will be all for today . |
| 2 | ‘ That 'll be all for now , Mr Brown . |
| 3 | THANK YOU GORBY , THAT WILL BE ALL FOR NOW |
| 4 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 5 | They may not be so for much longer . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 7 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 8 | Sometimes the soldiers can be away for up to five weeks at a time . |
| 9 | He himself would be away for nearly a month : already his appointment diary for his time in the States was crammed . |
| 10 | ‘ But you must realise that Stella could be away for quite a period — especially if her appendix is to be removed . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't like leaving her on her own too long ( I usually have to be away for about eight hours ) . |
| 12 | Well we can still be away for about four lessons at four thirty so er |
| 13 | The headboard roughly translates as ‘ I shall not be away for long . ’ |
| 14 | I do not like to be away for so long . ’ |
| 15 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 16 | But they would not be still for long . |
| 17 | They will be here for tomorrow 's challenge game between Newry Select and the Irish international team , as part of the Newry club 's official opening of their new £400,000 synthetic pitch . |
| 18 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 19 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 20 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
| 21 | But as far as I 'm concerned , they 're welcome to be here for as long as they need . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm afraid I do n't speak French at all and in any case I will not be here for long , but madame … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It would n't have killed him to be here for once . ’ |
| 24 | My dear , we have things to talk about and I do n't expect to be here for very much longer — would you prefer us to trail off to my hotel or some public place , or to your frankly not very inviting villa ? |
| 25 | I 'll be here for only a little while and I prefer to stick to formality . ’ |
| 26 | A lot of them I recognized from school : they were in the pub every night , with their dads , and would be there for ever , never going away . |
| 27 | He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel . |
| 28 | But they wo n't be there for ever . |
| 29 | Well he 's not going to be there for ever . |
| 30 | There 's work that needs to be done , in most of the major sports grounds , but that 's proceeding and there 's , if you can imagine that there 's , in Shrewsbury for example , a lot of the work which we would want to be done on the grounds have been less than enthusiastic about doing , because they 're likely not to be there for very long . |