Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm concerned Geoff as a Ward Councillor I read about this in the paper that the Environment Committee which David is on er agreed to this scheme which is I 'm all for having squares in the city centre and places for people to sit and enjoy and I 'm ambivalent about the leaf stem . |
| 2 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 3 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |
| 4 | I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive . |
| 5 | This is because the output logogen system is solely for producing words , and the input logogen systems can only recognise words — a spoken or printed non-word would not cause an input logogen to respond , and hence non-words can not enter the mental lexicon at all . |
| 6 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |
| 7 | What alternative framework is there for analysing teaching quality ? |
| 8 | He was all for sending Gladstone over to the ‘ bloody ’ Russians . ’ |
| 9 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 10 | Your grandfather had been a Poor Law Guardian and sharpened his razor on a leather strap that was also for giving beltings . |
| 11 | He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd stay a bit till your Dad comes home if it was n't for keeping Nelly company . |