Example sentences of "be for one " in BNC.

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1 Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d .
2 Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work .
3 Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored .
4 Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) .
5 Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers .
6 For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system !
7 The duration of local authority bonds is typically between one and five years , although most are for one year and are known as yearling bonds .
8 And it would only be for one night .
9 An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years .
10 To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein .
11 Viscerally , political leaders in all parties recognise that Germany is moving towards reunification , however uncomfortable that prospect may be for one of Germany 's wartime adversaries .
12 It did n't have to be for one slot , it did n't have to be in a particular form , it could be anything as long as it used the medium for visual ends .
13 I have altered my Mind ; I should not like it cloth , but duffil , let it be cloth , and not to be more than 11s at most , and full yard long , and two if you please , both of a length , and both large ones , full yard long , both of a price , they both be for one Woman — they must be exactly alike for goodness and price — fail not on Wednesday — and full yard long .
14 It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’
15 Contracts will be for one year , beginning in Summer 1991 .
16 The appointment will be for one year .
17 Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit .
18 Under the threat of NT the current mood of the industry seems to be for one requirements body , a consistent set of requirements and one open system .
19 It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals .
20 If you can not find the card , it could be for one of two reasons : that the library does not hold a copy of the book ; or that the book is of a special kind and is listed under one of the special catalogues .
21 As to why he has contacted you after all this time , it could be for one of three reasons .
22 And it wo n't be for the whole of a c of a company 's range , it 'll just be for one specific product at a time .
23 Each cycle should take fifty five minutes so we do three sets of role play , well we look at them , look for the cycle to start at quarter past ten first cycle must start at quarter past ten , there four that should be for one o'clock so we commence the third and final role play , come back here and break for lunch and have an hour for lunch final role play at two o'clock .
24 Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting .
25 all yo , if the clients had to pay for anything it would be for one newspaper and one telephone call home that was all .
26 In all 79% ( 23949 of 30253 ) of general practitioner referrals were for one of the seven examinations covered in the guideline booklet ( chest , skull , spine , abdomen , barium investigation , excretion urography , and limbs and joints ) .
27 In the early years of the century , laboratories were for one or two people , with assistants and perhaps a friend or two to watch , to perform research ; or else to carry out routine analyses for a fee ; or a mixture of these things .
28 It 's for one of the village children , that sweet little boy of Jan Coggan 's .
29 For trombone , no , it 's not , it 's for , yes it 's for one of the trombones , is n't it ?
30 One thirty and that 's for one one eight .
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