Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 2 | How do we know which is for tea and which is n't ? |
| 3 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 4 | This may sound obvious , but it is surprising how many editors say they are for ever clearing out photographs which have no identification . |
| 5 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 6 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 7 | how do you know it 's thingy ? , how do you know it 's for the kids in Norway ? |
| 8 | And never once has he been for Instruction . ’ |
| 9 | Say it 's for the snapper . ’ |
| 10 | I say it 's for young fellows like yourself and myself , ’ Fonsie said . |
| 11 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 12 | And then if he asks you what you 're doing just say it 's for like , you know , a project we 're supposed to be doing . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 14 | Since the Vendor will have entered into the relevant contracts in the first place it is for the Vendor to take the risk as saying whether or not the contracts fall within these categories . |
| 15 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 16 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 17 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 18 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 19 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 20 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 21 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 22 | He says it 's for tourists and people who 've read the novels who want to refresh their thoughts . |
| 23 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |
| 24 | She says it 's for ducks . |
| 25 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 26 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 27 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 28 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 29 | We hope it 's for the best , ’ said Mr Gennady Gerasimov , the chief spokesman , in pithy words which encapsulate the bold leap towards the Common European Home that Mr Egon Krenz , with Moscow 's backing , has made . |
| 30 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |