Example sentences of "we [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Angus replied : ‘ We are for advising the Prime Minister , who is very interested in efficiency and effectiveness in the Civil Service . |
| 2 | We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury . |
| 3 | The attack was stepped up by Raghib Ahsan , of Birmingham Ladywood , who told the conference : ‘ We are offered scraps from the masters ’ table , and hungry as we are for black representation , our response must be to spit them out . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Thus we live by hope and faith , thus we are for the most part able to realize what we will , and thus we accomplish the end of our being . |
| 5 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 6 | In 1970 President Nixon affirmed ‘ we are for Israel because Israel in our view is the only state in the Mideast which is pro-freedom and an effective opponent to Soviet expansion . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Day is done ’ is of course another Shakespearean echo , like the Dark Tower : ‘ The bright day is done ’ , says Iras to Cleopatra , ‘ and we are for the dark ’ . |
| 8 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell us how bad we are for eating , buying , selling so much , through pictures of starving children or selfish indulgence — this is the style favoured by charities . |
| 10 | To actually erm I 'd gather the evidence of how far down the line we are for her , saying that would that would be a a six monthly check . |
| 11 | ‘ We are for ever saving each other 's neck , you and I. ’ He halted , striving to get his breath . |
| 12 | On behalf of CPRW , I would like to say how grateful we are for your request to the Trustees of Mrs L D Rope 's Second Charitable Settlement to consider making a donation to CPRW . |
| 13 | Argol is on his way in a kind of steel tub , apparently , and when he gets here we are for it . |
| 14 | We are not against unions , we are for unions , unions can be very useful not only for their members but also for the management , we recognise that . |
| 15 | It will obviously take some time , you know Alex is , must be going through a terrible strain himself and he must be concerned about us er as we are for him . |
| 16 | Oh , we 're for it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We 're for it for patriotic reasons . |
| 18 | ‘ Now we 're for it , ’ whispered her sister . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're for choice right across the board . |
| 20 | ‘ Now we 're for it . ’ |
| 21 | Paul , point Q does not apply to access by telephone which is what we 're for . |
| 22 | Should we , because we 're for us today ? |
| 23 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 24 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 25 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 26 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 27 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
| 28 | So the information that is given us is for our information only , or ? |
| 29 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'll recall that the cheque you paid us was for a chest which we made for your cousin . |