Example sentences of "be for [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy . |
| 2 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
| 3 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 4 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 5 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 6 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 7 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 8 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |
| 9 | The rooms are for 2–3 sharing and are all well furnished with private bath , shower , WC and balcony . |
| 10 | Some of the form and topical subdivisions are for general application and are known as free-floating . |
| 11 | The Seville variety is mainly used for marmalade , while the rest are for ordinary eating and cooking . |
| 12 | Beware of some proprietary brands — most are for preventative use and will have little effect against serious outbreaks of parasites . |
| 13 | The duration of local authority bonds is typically between one and five years , although most are for one year and are known as yearling bonds . |
| 14 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 15 | The studios are for two persons and are simply but pleasantly furnished . |
| 16 | Four season bags are for all-year use and five season bags are designed for the kind of extreme cold temperatures you 're likely to find on winter expeditions . |
| 17 | of enrolments are for vocational courses and 40 per cent . |
| 18 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 19 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 20 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 21 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 22 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 23 | The follow-on 603 , 604 and 620 , implemented in 0.5-micron design rules and promised for 1993 , are for low-cost desktops and portables , 100MHz PCs and mainstream workstations and the 64-bit multiprocessor market respectively . |
| 24 | By and large , roses are for open situations and full sun , not dappled sunlight or shade . |
| 25 | ‘ These low cost housing schemes are for local people and the children of local people . |
| 26 | She was told that the charge was going to be for four days and Ganley was going to save the business . |
| 27 | Not all visits would be for four weeks and not every Group would have exactly four visitors each year . |
| 28 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 29 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 30 | all yo , if the clients had to pay for anything it would be for one newspaper and one telephone call home that was all . |