Example sentences of "[vb infin] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general this is all that you need to complete most documents , the only extra frames you 'll need are for images . |
| 2 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 3 | The example we shall give is for a person who starts the regime moderately overweight and whose normal meals are fairly typically too high in fat , sugar , and salt , and too low in fibre . |
| 4 | The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda . |
| 5 | What Muslim men do n't like is for their women to work outside the home , potentially in the company of strange men . |
| 6 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 7 | And erm what I 'd like is for Dennis is to explain a little about how far we 've actually got with the C E D G approach to the introduction of I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 8 | But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service . |
| 9 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 10 | Erm but one of the things they did not like is for erm to have a sales consultant on the medical practice for three weeks using their |
| 11 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 12 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 13 | The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane . |
| 14 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 15 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 16 | However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers . |
| 17 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 18 | It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed . |
| 19 | The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated . |
| 20 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 21 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 22 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 23 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 24 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 25 | The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’ |
| 26 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 27 | Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity . |
| 28 | All these hours in Madamoiselle McKirdy 's class will not have been for nothing . |
| 29 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 30 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |