Example sentences of "be for " in BNC.

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121 The winner of the President 's Cup , as it would be for at least three more years , was Artisan Secretary and Club Greensman , Bill Steptoe .
122 ‘ What possible reason would that be for disliking you ?
123 The logical development would be for closer examination of early foetuses with a view to detecting minor deficiencies which many babies are born with .
124 According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance .
125 Apart from these it is meant to account for all the reasons there can be for accepting authorities .
126 The more Jane Holt mulled things over in her mind , the less cause there seemed to be for alarm .
127 There are possible complications of a curable cancer and I shall have to be monitored regularly by Charing Cross Hospital ( because moles are so rare it is centralised ) until my hormone levels return to normal ( This could be for up to two years ) .
128 The Broad Horizon will comprise works of art acquired by the Foundation between 1988 and 1990 , as well as pictures and prints on Trust subjects which will be for sale .
129 Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it .
130 ( v ) Pupils should be taught about the different functions of written language : that writing can be for the writer alone ; it can be addressed to a known reader ; or it can be written for a large and unknown audience .
131 In Sweden , if there are no increases in energy efficiency , the electricity demand in 2010 will be for 194 terawatt-hours ( TWh ) of energy — half as much again as demand today .
132 I think the best way to proceed will be for you to produce as many captions as you think fit and we can then select from these during editing .
133 Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series )
134 Peter and I agreed that the next step should be for us ( you ? ) to circulate the above topic/author proposals as an Aunt Sally to Paul and Jackie Schachter to see if this coincides at all with their thinking .
135 We have kindly been provided with a VHS copy of the above stock footage by ART films with regard to an educational non-broadcast video entitled Project Video which we are currently filming and which will be for use in teaching English as a foreign language to secondary school age students throughout the world .
136 Perhaps the best way of going forward would be for you to send me a description of your work .
137 I wonder , therefore , if I could ask you to take only one copy — would it be for the IBM/CMS or the Sun/3 with UNIX configuration ?
138 His language , so familiar and so foreign , will always be for me an acquired speech .
139 The innovation may be for a building or construction project which was completed between 1 January 1987 and 12 October 1990 .
140 Six wood veneers in Natural or Surfaced finishes are currently available and it is anticipated that appropriate applications will be for wall panelling and furniture .
141 Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party .
142 And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film .
143 It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue .
144 I insisted that the Unit must be responsible for its own training and operational planning and that , therefore , the Commander of the Unit must come directly under the C in C. I emphasised how fatal it would be for the proposed unit to be put under any existing branch or formation for administration .
145 The further west Allied aircraft could be stationed , the easier it would be for them to protect the sea lanes which were vulnerable to enemy air power based in Sicily and Crete .
146 If you win , it will then be for them to serve an enforcement notice or injunction as appropriate .
147 And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ?
148 Although there is no fundamental objection to life-long medication — many diabetics rely on daily injections of insulin with no prospect of stopping — no drug is without hazard , and the longer the treatment continues , the stronger the case should be for it .
149 These will be for family use only , but she 's branching out in the commercial food market soon with a line of American foods , with the help of husband Chris .
150 This was the time that Farnborough was the place to be for many reasons .
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