Example sentences of "[v-ing] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |
| 2 | Racing is for the track not for the road . |
| 3 | But this was by no means a neurotic homosexuality : For them it was a means to a livelihood , as pimping is for others ’ ( p. 180 ) . |
| 4 | By now , however , the biggest pressure Kylie is facing is for her to move towards live appearances and a major world tour to capitalise on the success of ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and all that has followed it . |
| 5 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 6 | The Child Poverty Action Group might also be seen as an expert and appropriate group to raise social security matters , having been for many years active in campaigning on such matters . |
| 7 | In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired , having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life — catering for numbers large or small , brewing tea and coffee , selling biscuits outside Room 18 , applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits . |
| 8 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 9 | Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal . |
| 10 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 11 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
| 12 | In westernized hierarchically stratified societies , the form this linguistic sex-marking has commonly been interpreted as taking is for women to approximate more closely than men of similar status to the prestige norm . |
| 13 | The punchcards in the basic packs which are marked for colour changing are for manual yarn changing , where it is the pattern that is intended to change ; so these wo n't work with the colour changer either . |
| 14 | Hari sighed and returned to her task , the shoes she was making were for Emily Grenfell . |
| 15 | The sensation of seeing is for us very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 16 | Now if we work as a team and we work very sensibly and reasonably , it may wo may well be that the most sensible way of working is for the project engineer to decide who 's gon na do the site measure . |
| 17 | Why they found them striking was for the stylistician to explain . |