Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you have any idea how much it was for ? ’ |
| 2 | Th the notes that 're attached are actually for er he 's been looking into the matter and basically it 's for information only really |
| 3 | ‘ perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 4 | But as one passenger said : ‘ Perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 5 | Perhaps it 's for the best if he did take an early retirement . ’ |
| 6 | Then with a sigh , ‘ Perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 10 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 11 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it was for days . |
| 15 | The future should always be a volatile mixture of trepidation and excitement and so it is for The Wedding Present . |
| 16 | erm He says , ‘ Just as what we think good , what we should like , has no bearing on whatever on what is , so it is for us to determine the good life . |
| 17 | Oh , so it 's so it 's for photographing the star and |
| 18 | And so it 's for you it 's for me , for the person sitting beside you and behind , it is for every one of us ! |
| 19 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 20 | So it 's for a marketing company who are are helping . |
| 21 | Yeah I think it it 's it 's been coming on a sort of er you know we we we tour here twice a year every year and we release an album every year at this time and a video , so it 's for all the people who like that type of music they know it 's going to be there and they come out to see us all the time you know and er as you say it goes on and on but lucky enough there is an awful lot of material for us to do and you know there should n't be any problem . |
| 22 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 23 | And so it was for Wirral , for , as we shall see in Chapter 2 , the Index was collecting ‘ epidemic ’ data but its guardians did not recognise or communicate the fact . |
| 24 | Erm I so it was for one So seven kilometres is equal to fifty millimetres . |
| 25 | So it was for her . |
| 26 | And so it was for Former Labour Leader Michael Foot and front bench spokesmen , Chris Smith and Donald Dewar as they slugged it out with John Patten and Peter Lilley . |
| 27 | And so it was for Lt Clyde Sparky Cosper , based at Thurleigh in Befordshire , but who 's selfless bravery saved a Chilterns Town from total disaster in 1943 . |
| 28 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 29 | Thus it is for the trader to resolve ambiguities in his price indications . |
| 30 | Usually it 's for money , or sometimes for political advantage . |