Example sentences of "[be] for the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 3 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The forecast is for the same dry hard weather for days . ’ |
| 13 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Interestingly , his poor showing was for the same reason as that of much of the European contingent . |
| 20 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 21 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 22 | But such privileged access was for the few : most men had to relay their desires through the elite which manned the doors of power . |