Example sentences of "[be] for [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 All might still have been well had it not been for yet another unfortunate circumstance .
2 I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years .
3 From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone .
4 You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind .
5 But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product .
6 You 'd done the hard part correctly , calculating what the weight would be for so many engines .
7 ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses .
8 But that 's for how many of them ?
9 that 's for so much .
10 It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 .
11 … the increasingly articulate demand of society , voiced by parents , employers , politicians and the students themselves is for just this wider service — wider in aims , wider in curriculum and wider in access .
12 Given our account of causal circumstances , that is fundamentally to say , in line with the independent conditional ( 5 ) set out in Section I .3 and mentioned at the beginning of this section , that for a to have the power to produce b is for roughly this to be true : if A & C , even if X , still B — where C asserts the existence of other conditions or events .
13 ‘ Wagnerian ’ is for once more than apt description , for just after he composed this symphony Korngold set to work on the score for one of Hollywood 's composer bio-pics , Magic Fire .
14 It was for just such occasions that Martha kept her best china locked securely in the glass cabinet and saved to get the front room furnished ‘ fit for visitors ’ .
15 It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’
16 If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation .
17 It was for precisely this reason that Russia , which had far more than any other State to fear from strong government and an active foreign policy in Sweden , did everything in its power to uphold that constitution ( see p. 266 ) .
18 The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic .
19 Was n't religion simply a pose with him , as it was for so many so-called Christians ?
20 ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things .
21 The next step , in the late Triassic , was for very many of the archosaurs to become true dinosaurs .
22 Production for wholesale supply to co-operative retail stores was for virtually all practical purposes incidental to the Consumers ' Co-operation and had little separate existence .
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