Example sentences of "[adv] be for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thinks the blacklist will only be for Liverpool , but he says he wo n't go until after Christmas . ’ |
| 2 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 3 | And our first request tonight is for Mr. and Mrs. Levitt , whose son is serving overseas in the Air Force . |
| 4 | Wright is determined at last to become as prolific for his country as he always is for Arsenal especially with Alan Shearer lurking in the wings for Holland next month . |
| 5 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |
| 6 | Market reports suggest that the contract will also be for Conoco 's Heidrun field , supplying drilling and processing packages . |
| 7 | Because Labour was once against Europe , it can not now be for Europe . |
| 8 | The most important thing right now is for England to qualify for next years World Cup Finals . |
| 9 | Marxist ideology was no better guarantee of Vietcong decency 20 years ago than it now is for Swapo ; nor has it preserved the Sandinistas from endemic corruption in their civil war against the American-backed Contras . |
| 10 | The only way out now is for ITT to register a different name for its digital television sets in Britain . |
| 11 | The Chancellor stated that the priority now was for East Germany to move to free and secret elections , a press freed from bureaucratic political control , free trade unions , and the right to form independent parties , he said . |
| 12 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 13 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 14 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 15 | The story is an intricate one , as Herbert Schneidau acknowledges ; and Pound 's holding out against Ford for the Dantesque principle of a ‘ curial ’ diction ( see his introduction to the poems of Lionel Johnson ) represents to my mind an objection that can still be raised to Ford 's principles of diction , salutary as Ford 's polemics undoubtedly were for Pound at this time . |
| 16 | Maria said vehemently , her thoughts flying briefly to Rachel , for whom marriage was a trap in a way it could never be for Florian . |
| 17 | Corporate liberty , even of the most exalted kind , could never be for Anselm , as it was for Hugh of Lyons , the mainspring of his whole life . |
| 18 | I watched the Leeds game on Saturday night on Match of the Day and it certainly was for Norwich . |