Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] be for " in BNC.

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1 They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ?
2 There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway .
3 One should not expect to obtain a detailed contract , but once a commitment is made it is for the long term .
4 For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year .
5 We asked men how well equipped they are for sex , both physically and mentally .
6 Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress .
7 They were her protectors , older , stronger , more clever and brave , and yet they had assumed it was for her to say what they were to do .
8 His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John .
9 If a covenant is contested it is for the party seeking to rely on the covenant to prove its reasonableness ( see Rex Stewart Jeffries Parker Ginsberg v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 ) .
10 So the information that is given us is for our information only , or ?
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