Example sentences of "be [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 2 | Novell 's network products are mostly for PCs , but the next few years will see them move into the traditional minicomputer market with support for a number of minicomputer systems , thus re-enforcing their dominance . |
| 3 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 4 | ‘ I am all for change , ’ he says . |
| 5 | I am all for patriotism and international competition — the more feeling , the better . |
| 6 | I am all for peace . |
| 7 | Chapter 10 comes back from Utopia — and I am all for Utopia — to the question of ‘ How is it to be done ? ’ |
| 8 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 9 | They believe that the miserly increases being made now are enough for pensioners . |
| 10 | No , me and my verruca are together for life . |
| 11 | The times are less for youngsters under 17 years of age . |
| 12 | They are so for robbers too . |
| 13 | These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains ' and coaches ' mumbled no-comments , and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men . |
| 14 | These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains ' and coaches ' mumbled no-comments , and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men . |
| 15 | Many of the agreements are only for minority groups , especially BCU members , many give access to only very short lengths of river and dates of use can be restricted . |
| 16 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 17 | The one on the right read ‘ These seats are only for use by those who can be classified as obese ’ and the one on the left read ‘ These seats are for those of very slim build only ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 19 | But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her |
| 20 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
| 21 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 22 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 23 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 24 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 25 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 26 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 27 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 28 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 29 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 30 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |