Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 2 | Novell 's network products are mostly for PCs , but the next few years will see them move into the traditional minicomputer market with support for a number of minicomputer systems , thus re-enforcing their dominance . |
| 3 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 5 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 6 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 7 | Not all of these differences are necessarily for the worse , but the last four mentioned clearly are . |
| 8 | These proposals are basically for the completion of the earlier main line proposals of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . ) |
| 9 | I am all for sharing , but am not interested in running a commune . |
| 10 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 11 | ‘ I am all for it if it stops the bombings , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I am all for change , ’ he says . |
| 13 | I am all for my children |
| 14 | I am all for peace . |
| 15 | I am all for planning from the bottom up but I am also convinced of the virtues of the presentation of draft proposals as a means for making discussion possible . |
| 16 | Chapter 10 comes back from Utopia — and I am all for Utopia — to the question of ‘ How is it to be done ? ’ |
| 17 | I am all for patriotism and international competition — the more feeling , the better . |
| 18 | ’ As long as the police are doing their job I am all for it . ’ |
| 19 | Personally I am all for the guilty being run to ground . |
| 20 | Ulpian also cites another equivalent wording , ‘ the vineyards or farm are enough for you ’ ( sufficiunt tibi vineae vel fundus ) . |
| 21 | Two to three tablespoons of tinned tomatoes are enough for a sauce made from 2 lb. of the fresh fruit or for 3 pints of stock . |
| 22 | These are enough for quite extended works . |
| 23 | The income from the farm and lands are enough for us to live in comparative comfort without going cap-in-hand to common tradesmen . |
| 24 | They believe that the miserly increases being made now are enough for pensioners . |
| 25 | One kilogram contents are enough for about thr thirty metres square |
| 26 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 27 | The couple are together for 90 minutes on a visit to a Nottingham hospital . |
| 28 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 29 | No , me and my verruca are together for life . |
| 30 | The times are less for youngsters under 17 years of age . |