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

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1 Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation .
2 They are except for they played the wr they played the sweep system .
3 Bought it , I do n't know one for sale now , you know , but for the price they are and for the rent it 's very reasonable .
4 erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here .
5 " Where should we all be but for their prayers ? "
6 ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’
7 Where would we be but for the work done by previous generations ?
8 1.14 " Working day " means any day on which clearing banks in the City of London are ( or would be but for a strike lock-out or other stoppage affecting such banks generally ) open during banking hours and " working days " shall be construed accordingly
9 A transfer of value is a disposition made by a person ( called the transferor ) as a result of which the value of his estate immediately after the disposition is less than it would be but for the disposition .
10 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight-node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000-processor model .
11 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight-node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000-processor model .
12 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000 processor model .
13 Availability will be as for the Xplorer , with prices starting at £34,000 for an eight-node machine and ranging up to £4m for a 1,000-processor model .
14 The minimum length of courses would be as for existing TEC courses at the equivalent level .
15 The Oral Test will be as for the English for Commerce Second Level examination ( see 5.2.2 ) and the same subject code ( 2101 ) will apply .
16 The report accepted that the entry qualifications for the new degree and its standards should be as for other first degrees , but a majority of the group could not accept that it was possible to combine a professional and academic education to honours standard in three years .
17 So you were except for roofing foreman
18 We mentioned earlier the paradoxes which were that for instance erm we 're looking for a low risk investment or our customers are looking for a low risk investment , they tell us they need well proven technology but that needs to be advanced technology .
19 For various reasons , intellectual , historical and sexual , it was easier for her to accept things as they were than for Peter .
20 To his amazement , the very results that he had been after for several years were achieved .
21 With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ .
22 The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) .
23 A judge should be obliged when passing sentence to state what the sentence would have been but for the plea of guilty .
24 The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left .
25 The thing about sex , thought Jay , apart from everything else , is that for a few , for many , for countless seconds and sometimes glorious minutes , you stop thinking .
26 ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . '
27 What is important to realize is that for Yeats certainly , and I think at times for Pound also , the only alternative open was a sorry second best .
28 The governments ' main complaint is that for the Commission 's plan to work , a special clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue levied in the country of export which would be owing to that of import - where the product would be consumed .
29 One danger is that for some people everything might happen too quickly at a Loving Relationships Training weekend .
30 What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff .
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