Example sentences of "[be] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 2 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 3 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 4 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 5 | Even so , she had tied her hair back and simply slammed it on top of her head , If it had n't been for the few feminine wisps that escaped to frame that beautiful face she would have looked forbidding . |
| 6 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 7 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 8 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 9 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 10 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
| 11 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 12 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 13 | Well it 'd be for the this angle if you extended it so it 'd be eight divided by the three sixty is n't it ? |
| 14 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 15 | Different people solving slightly different problems in separate rooms create no difficulty — until they come to communicate their solutions , which are assumed to be for the same problem . |
| 16 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 17 | But in their Spitalfields Tartan Collection , the Stewarts have done the work for you ; silks , cottons , wools all match up so that it is possible to choose as much or as little tartan as you like , whether it 's for a few cushions or for some big and bold project . |
| 18 | The bird 's flapping became as frantic as a wind-up toy 's for a few seconds , but this quickly petered out and its body became limp . |
| 19 | Yeah we 're going to stay with his mums 's for a few days sh sh |
| 20 | bigger that 's for the same reason , there you 've got an E , and so because you 've got the E we can double the G to make the I go on , go on say short for |
| 21 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 22 | Preference is for the latter , below par last time , but who has lumps in hand on his close second to Sirrah Jay at Newton Abbot a month ago . |
| 23 | The forecast is for the same dry hard weather for days . ’ |
| 24 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
| 25 | The I think the erm the main point that I 'd like to make is that erm the structure as it 's posed erm is for the same number of staff erm , however , the three , what were supervisory stroke managerial posts erm have changed , we feel , as a result of the merger and therefore , and there are three er little posts mainly , a head of , people called a head of and a head of the support , support a support services manager and a support services officer and erm the appendix details the main er , functions in each post , er those posts . |
| 26 | An application is an application for a renewal where it relates to premises in respect of which the applicant has been granted a licence which is due to expire and is for the same type of licence as that previously granted . |
| 27 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 28 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 29 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 30 | 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 . |