Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 2 | Besides being ‘ colourful ’ they advertise records which I presume are for sale in Liverpool shops and various events such as the wonderful ‘ Festival of Comedy ’ . |
| 3 | In anticipation of receiving your contract within the next few days , I am requesting a copy of the tape according to your specifications , which I understand are for UNIX on Sun/4 at 6250 bpi . |
| 4 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 5 | First he pointed out his own editorial cubicle , then the adjacent one which he explained was for his personal assistant , Carmel Bedford . |
| 6 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 7 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 8 | Everything I do is for them . |
| 9 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 10 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 11 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 12 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 13 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 14 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 15 | ‘ What I want is for us to talk long and hard , and now , ’ she declared , and , swivelling on her heel , she marched back into the house . |
| 16 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 17 | What you want is for me to stroke your ego by telling you that he does n't compare to you . ’ |
| 18 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 19 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 20 | Now that we do live much longer with better health care generally , what we want is for women to be able to live that last third of their lives in health and being able to enjoy themselves and contribute to the community , not feeling that they 're crippled by pain . |
| 21 | What we need is for all of us , men , women and children , to be open to and comfortable with all these feelings . |
| 22 | ‘ John Dyson , ’ the chairman was saying , ‘ do you , as a journalist , agree with the suggestion that what we need is for the press to take a firm moral lead and play down all news to do with race relations ? ’ |
| 23 | What we need is for every single appeal stage , for the member to at least have the right to know why he or she has lost . |
| 24 | Nothing now would have induced Meredith to sign his petition , whatever it had been for . |
| 25 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 26 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 27 | 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 . |