Example sentences of "it [modal v] be for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 2 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |
| 3 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |
| 4 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 5 | His debt did not have to be less than £20 ; it could be for any amount . |
| 6 | all yo , if the clients had to pay for anything it would be for one newspaper and one telephone call home that was all . |
| 7 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |