Example sentences of "[verb] be for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 2 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it has been for the last hour . ’ |
| 4 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 5 | Another important use of statistical grammatical information has been for the grammatical tagging of natural language corpora . |
| 6 | It is worth restating how radical a leader Mrs Thatcher has been for the Conservative party . |
| 7 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 8 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |
| 9 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |
| 10 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 11 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 13 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 14 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 15 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 16 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 18 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |