Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 2 | Think about the , think about the sizes , think about the weights and think about what it 's got ta be used for and that is really got to relate to the dressing in the dressing room because there 's all sorts of things there , there 's jewellery , there 's hats . |
| 3 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 4 | How long are you going to be gone for ? ’ |
| 5 | It was to be the holiday of a life-time and they hoped to be gone for two or three months . |
| 6 | Presently Mrs Mantini went out , to be gone for her usual two hours before closing-time . |
| 7 | It seems to be gone for a long time . |
| 8 | Donald Davie , in a dispirited essay called ‘ Criticism and the Academy ’ , ruefully acknowledges that the belletrist criticism of men of letters such as Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly ( unequal figures , these , one has to remark ) might have more to be said for it than he , as a lifelong academic , would be happy to acknowledge : |
| 9 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 10 | Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable . |
| 11 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 12 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 13 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 14 | There 's a lot to be said for making the trench in autumn , chucking in household waste all winter and replacing the soil in spring . |
| 15 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 16 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 17 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 18 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 19 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 20 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 21 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 22 | There is something , at least , to be said for the old order : ‘ Educational injustice enabled people to preserve their illusions , inequality of opportunity fostered the myth of human equality . ’ |
| 23 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 24 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |
| 25 | There is nothing to be said for propounding the philosophy of history if you do not know the date of the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's a lot to be said for the barn method . |
| 27 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 28 | There is often much to be said for trying to sort the matter out by pursuing your rights under your company 's grievance procedure . |
| 29 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 30 | There is much to be said for interpreting a modality such as ‘ when he reaches the age of sixteen ’ as a condition rather than a term . |