Example sentences of "[be] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight . |
| 2 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |
| 3 | This time tomorrow it would be all over , and part of history ; the victors would be celebrating , the losers complaining that had it not been for this and that , they would have won , and the course of history would have been different . |
| 4 | Too bad the horrendous loading system leaves a nasty taste in the mouth — had it not been for this I 'd have cheerfully awarded around 85% ( disk owners take note ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 6 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 7 | But the broad trend has been for this gap between the experience of rich and poor worlds to narrow ( see the graph on Page 16 ) . |
| 8 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 9 | And I do n't think they have been for this last |
| 10 | The ruins are for this man . |
| 11 | To watch such animals biting their own bodies as a way of providing novel stimulation is to see just how inadequate even the most modern zoos are for this type of species . |
| 12 | The very old and the young have a weaker mind than those in their prime and are for this reason more vulnerable to spirit attack . |
| 13 | Present plans are for this to be executed in January and February next year , and the bridge will provide the final link of roadways in this area . |
| 14 | There you are for this er gent 's singles stone diamond ring this time . |
| 15 | These encounters are for this reason accompanied by a great deal of laughing , smiling and verbal exchanges . |
| 16 | My orders are for this skeleton to be taken to the Natural History Museum in London , where scientific tests will reveal more about its true nature . |
| 17 | Since these payments are for this purpose they are quite separate from , and are not dependent upon , any right to compensation or the ‘ Disturbance Payment ’ which is described below . |
| 18 | And if somehow or other the , the , the whole of that er , erm , number nine , including the can be deferred , and I believe it should be , then that is what I would wish to happen , I would wish Mr to continue to have the freedom to see what the options are for this county council . |
| 19 | Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund . |
| 20 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 21 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |
| 22 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |
| 23 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 24 | Mm , well it will only be for this session anyway , movement ? |
| 25 | It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task . |
| 26 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 27 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 28 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 29 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 30 | It 's for this time . |