Example sentences of "for be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Doubling " in the context of gambling is clearly shown in Saint Pierre et le jongleur , where during the two games the stakes played for are steadily doubled . |
| 2 | In contrast , the qualities to look for are rather more difficult to define , and largely consist of a general character and appearance that springs from the individual interpretation of traditional tribal designs . |
| 3 | That made him both easier to think about ( for were there not rules about Captors ? |
| 4 | This was especially heinous , as items charged for were often put back into stock to be ‘ sold ’ time after time until they wore out . |
| 5 | Even love itself is better for being carefully ‘ gift-wrapped ’ sometimes , when the recipient is elderly , and fearful of the slightest hint of patronage or pity . |
| 6 | Through the network of INSET courses , inspectors , advisory teachers and personal contacts hunt out the names of schools where outstanding work is taking place or schools that have a reputation for being generally good . |
| 7 | I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me . |
| 8 | The thing is that , when you 're not in touch with your body , you 're not in touch with the earth , with our reasons for being here . |
| 9 | Thank you for being here . ’ |
| 10 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 11 | For being here ? ’ said Willoughby . |
| 12 | It was such a collective experience that John was n't mine any more , I had to share him with all these people , each with different motivations and reasons for being here . |
| 13 | Erm , just to give you something of my credentials for being here , er the name is , is Lewis . |
| 14 | ‘ You probably do n't want to see me this morning , but I 've a good reason for being here . |
| 15 | The reason for being here was disappearing more each day . |
| 16 | The horse paced , high-stepping , wheeled and returned , wheeled again and Maggie watched , awe-struck , her reasons for being here initially completely forgotten . |
| 17 | I do n't know why but I feel guilty for being here . |
| 18 | ‘ About your reason for being here . |
| 19 | No she does n't live with us but she does live locally and that was one of the reasons for being here because it 's a little bit easier to get to her . |
| 20 | I 'd also like to thank Colonel , Colonel for coming today from er Mildenhall in Lakenheath and also thanks to the Reverend for being here as well . |
| 21 | It was a time for being away from the cities , for reading and reflection , and being alone with nature . |
| 22 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 23 | The patchwork quilt of powers and relationships stipulated by the Constitution has been criticized for being neither useful nor relevant in the political environment of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 24 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 25 | With these complex connections made , speaker K adds some new elements to the conversation ( extra pay for being left-handed ) . |
| 26 | The pragmatists , and Dewey in particular , have been criticized for being overly optimistic about the power of creative intelligence to reconstruct social institutions through a programme of educational reform . |
| 27 | They looked quite like the Store nomes , except for being slightly darker and much skinnier . |
| 28 | If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased . |
| 29 | The island 's strawberries which are available all year round have a reputation for being particularly delicious . |
| 30 | New Age music has been cast aside from the mainstream , vilified for being either hippy nonsense or an adjunct to achieving altered states of consciousness . |