Example sentences of "do [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 2 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 3 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 4 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 5 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 6 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 7 | Well I 'll I 'll erm Well if you 've got the insurance the be the best thing to do is for me to tell them when you 've actually been done . |
| 8 | Liverpool Labour group member George Knibb said : ‘ What we are asking you to do is for what you believe in for the miners to commit yourselves to for your own workforce . ’ |
| 9 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |
| 10 | Probably what the best thing to do is for for for managers to sit when Vicky comes back I 'll fill in for anyone who reports to me . |
| 11 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 12 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 13 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
| 14 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 15 | Everything I do is for them . |
| 16 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 17 | Anythin' I ever did was for me family . |
| 18 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 19 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 21 | Everything Madonna does is for specific business reasons . |