Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 2 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 3 | To insist upon the inquest in these circumstances could only have been for the purpose of procuring a rapping over the knuckles in public of that authority and/or a convenient means of obtaining evidence for a subsequent claim against it . |
| 4 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 5 | Anythin' I ever did was for me family . |
| 6 | The mine I always pictured was for lead , |
| 7 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 8 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 9 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 11 | But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books . |
| 12 | ‘ What I really want is for us to reach these people before Moscow does : there 's no argument about who they 'll want to pin it on . |
| 13 | This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations . |
| 14 | What I really need is for ever . |
| 15 | What is particularly required is for the government to review the rules on benefits paid to people who receive income under therapeutic work schemes . |
| 16 | I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital . |
| 17 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 18 | And that would undoubtedly have been for the best . |
| 19 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 20 | In addition , the Rayner review of the service introduced not only cuts but a new philosophy that official figures , which previously had been for the service of the nation as a whole , were now to be tied far more closely to the requirements of the government of the day . |
| 21 | Or it certainly has been for me . |
| 22 | The ultimate sanction and one which is most commonly applied is for the mortgagee to sell . |
| 23 | Orders commonly sought are for the delivery of pleadings and particulars , and for discovery , and , as may be appropriate , for the following : ( 1 ) Amendment of pleadings and change of parties where leave is necessary . |