Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A book by Mother Teresa has said much to us about how we are to be for Jesus in this situation . ’ |
| 2 | If it 's to be for life . |
| 3 | ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this . |
| 4 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
| 5 | The fourteenth century showed how valuable access to the sea , and in particular to northern waters , was to be for France . |
| 6 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
| 7 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |