Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 2 | Just as the word ‘ scientist ’ was being coined in the 1830s to express a new feeling of community , specialized societies and journals were coming into being for astronomers , entomologists , chemists and other groups . |
| 3 | A royal banner now bestowed respectability on a cause ; kings ' wars were assumed to be for the sake of peace , even when cripplingly expensive and increasingly savage . |
| 4 | They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that . |
| 5 | And what do you think of the idea of ways that the , that the way the house types were graded , the fact that some of them were in fact meant to be executive or managerial classes and others were meant to be for people with less income , do you think that this is again recreating this sort of class system within the planning of the town ? |
| 6 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 7 | Then she thought how tiring it was going to be for the rest of her life trying to be the Wise Woman all the time . |
| 8 | If she was going to decline Mr O'Hara 's proposal , it was going to be for that very reason . |
| 9 | She was told that the charge was going to be for four days and Ganley was going to save the business . |
| 10 | After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really ! |
| 11 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |