Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] be for " in BNC.

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1 Teams have 2 speakers and they must be for or against whichever motion is on the table .
2 But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’
3 They are closely interrelated , separated though they must be for the purpose of analysis — and they are all questionable .
4 If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ?
5 On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude .
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