Example sentences of "[pers pn] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 2 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 3 | But I 'll still , I 'm for two . |
| 4 | I 'm for real — or what I call real , according to my limited sensory equipment . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'm for another round of toast , ’ said Chico . |
| 6 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 7 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 8 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 9 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 11 | Here you are for best results treat autumn or spring . |
| 12 | If we do n't know where you are for twelve months or more we have to assume you have abandoned your child . |
| 13 | There you are for this er gent 's singles stone diamond ring this time . |
| 14 | You 're for real , or what we call real , according to our limited sensory equipment . |
| 15 | And reading those terrible things , that you 're for dead , and you have to get up at so many different times . |
| 16 | ‘ Can you be for real ? ’ he muttered . |
| 17 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 18 | She 's for this house . |
| 19 | The skirt pattern I 've designed for you is for Japanese machines , but I 've also made one for Passap/Pfaff . |
| 20 | Or maybe you can say that Mellor wanted to be the captain , but she was for sure the admiral . |
| 21 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 22 | The attack was stepped up by Raghib Ahsan , of Birmingham Ladywood , who told the conference : ‘ We are offered scraps from the masters ’ table , and hungry as we are for black representation , our response must be to spit them out . ’ |
| 23 | At the sampling stage they are for practical reasons equally important , for it is hard to see how investigators could proceed without some recourse to demographic categories such as class , sex , or ethnicity . |
| 24 | Of course they are for internal consideration only , but because there is the intention of some discussion at June CED Conference on Government Joint Funding and on Resource Sharing , I thought these two papers might profitably be circulated as background material . |
| 25 | His principle is to maintain the gardens and grounds as they are for all the residents , so that from outside it is not apparent that the building has been divided up . |
| 26 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 27 | They are for that area on the Greater York study . |
| 28 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 29 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 30 | Every day couples meet who are amazed at how right they are for each other — proof that Dateline works ! |