Example sentences of "[vb base] be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 2 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 3 | But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books . |
| 4 | All that you behold is for the most part , simply broadcasting equipment . |
| 5 | The descriptions of them in the books we read are for the most part as unlike the truth as are the descriptions of aristocratic life in the books they read . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |
| 8 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 10 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 13 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 14 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 15 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 16 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 17 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 18 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 20 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 21 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 22 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 23 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 25 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 27 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 28 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 29 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |