Example sentences of "[prep] [be] for " in BNC.

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1 The examples that Freud talks about are for example er , the Trojan War in early Greek history .
2 If it had n't of been for Steve 's car breaking down and him having
3 If it had n't of been for the war I 'd have been a model !
4 There is , then , something in the idea of being for animal welfare we all can accept , just as there is something in the ideas of being against cruelty and for human responsibility and animal protection .
5 Typical of stress is this feeling of being for ever ‘ on the run ’ , unable to stop and be at peace with yourself .
6 Initially Foucault argues that the stasis of what he calls the ‘ Classical Order ’ gave way to ‘ History ’ — which took over both as the form of knowledge and as the fundamental mode of being for empirical phenomena .
7 In this context each individual can emphasise that aspect of the two modes of being for which he has the greatest gift and both may further the understanding of the work of love .
8 This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils .
9 Although ‘ English ’ does have connections with the genuine disciplines of history and philosophy it came into being for cultural rather than disciplinary reasons .
10 For I was also an episode in someone else 's narrative , not my own person , my mother 's child , and brought into being for a particular purpose .
11 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 .
12 To meet objections to this , the Commission added that an individual should only be held where , quite apart from being for an ‘ arrestable offence ’ , the arrest was also ‘ necessary ’ .
13 In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc .
14 Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 .
15 Until the first new pay and conditions order is made under the new Act , the 1987 Act needs to be kept in being for a very short time for a very specific and limited purpose to ensure that all teachers continue to be covered by the existing pay and conditions order made under that Act .
16 Then comes the fun of making the pattern — and do make sure that the dimensions you are going to work to are for the full pattern and not the kite frame shape .
17 Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’
18 However , a shocked Danish bureaucrat blew the whistle on Mr Hocke as that ‘ refugee education fund ’ was only supposed to be for Mr Hartling and not any old non-Danish High Commissioner .
19 Sometimes biblical chant sounds too much like adaptation from simple anthropological textbooks , but we can see at any rate the exemplification of the way in which Lawrence 's ‘ capering redskins ’ had to be for Eliot now ‘ Life ’ but ‘ not the last word , only the first ’ .
20 They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that .
21 I think there has always got to be for any executive — and for any employee for that matter — new challenges , new frontiers to keep them enthused .
22 A book by Mother Teresa has said much to us about how we are to be for Jesus in this situation . ’
23 He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones .
24 Today , America 's Thanksgiving Day , it is certainly the place to be for the world 's best technical and all-round skiers .
25 The common response to predator attack appears to be for the cetaceans to flee , often silently , having first formed a tight group if they can .
26 Neither father nor mother can deprive themselves of their rights , except in the case of a separation agreement between husband and wife ; and even such an agreement will not be enforced by the court if the court considers it not to be for the child 's benefit .
27 One is said to be for the Lord and the other for Azazel .
28 ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this .
29 The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown .
30 So , gratitude it has to be for the glimpse of a hornbeam 's golden rain of catkin pollen in a sheltered copse where , among primroses and the first bluebells , sorrel shows its delicate pink flowers and ( useful in salads ) triple leaflets , which Saint Patrick used to demonstrate the nature of the Trinity .
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