Example sentences of "be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 7 | Not all of these differences are necessarily for the worse , but the last four mentioned clearly are . |
| 8 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 9 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 10 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 11 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 12 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 13 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 14 | These proposals are basically for the completion of the earlier main line proposals of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . ) |
| 15 | I am all for sharing , but am not interested in running a commune . |
| 16 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 17 | ‘ I am all for it if it stops the bombings , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ I am all for change , ’ he says . |
| 19 | I am all for my children |
| 20 | I am all for peace . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Chapter 10 comes back from Utopia — and I am all for Utopia — to the question of ‘ How is it to be done ? ’ |
| 23 | I am all for patriotism and international competition — the more feeling , the better . |
| 24 | ’ As long as the police are doing their job I am all for it . ’ |
| 25 | Personally I am all for the guilty being run to ground . |
| 26 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 28 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 29 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 30 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |