Example sentences of "[vb base] be for " in BNC.
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| 31 | In anticipation of receiving your contract within the next few days , I am requesting a copy of the tape according to your specifications , which I understand are for UNIX on Sun/4 at 6250 bpi . |
| 32 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 33 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 34 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 35 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 36 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 37 | ‘ We need the supporters and all I ask is for them to stay with us for the 90 minutes . ’ |
| 38 | Besides being ‘ colourful ’ they advertise records which I presume are for sale in Liverpool shops and various events such as the wonderful ‘ Festival of Comedy ’ . |
| 39 | I mean , your record is for sitting at home and listening to and live is for taking it somewhere different . ’ |
| 40 | All we do and say and think is for our country and our King . |
| 41 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 42 | Everything I do is for them . |
| 43 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 44 | We need to know who discourse is for , often in detail . |
| 45 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 46 | That look I think was for when he next meets Gareth Gilcock . |
| 47 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 48 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 49 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 50 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 51 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 52 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 53 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 54 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 55 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 56 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 57 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 58 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 59 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |