Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 2 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 3 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 4 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 5 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 6 | Floy stood where he was for a moment , looking up at the great , shining edifice that was Tara , Ireland 's Bright Palace , the great legendary Citadel of Light , the home of the Wolfkings … |
| 7 | In the law of property , a child conceived , but not yet born , will be treated as born , at any rate where it is for its advantage that it should be so treated . |
| 8 | I emphasise this point because popular topographical books still tend to suggest that any particular place is sited where it is for defence reasons , or because it is near a source of water . |
| 9 | Section 50C(2) provides a specific example of when this may be necessary , that is , where it is for the purpose of error correction . |
| 10 | It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop . |
| 11 | ‘ No , it 'll be a night out I would guess , although I 'm for home myself first , to get some shuteye . |
| 12 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 13 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 14 | But the Princess Sabatini was no more responsible for her egotistical grandson than she was for tonight 's overblown charity event . |
| 15 | ‘ No more anxious than you are for the return of the Earl of Gloucester , madam , ’ he countered . |
| 16 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 19 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 20 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 21 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 24 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 26 | Three of the four a 1 modes have already been identified , and the remaining a 1 mode must be that at lowest frequency ; the Raman band is not discernably polarized for , although it is for , and no IR band contours are available . |
| 27 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 28 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 29 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 30 | It may be hard to accept , but the argument goes that it is easier for a creative and original performer to learn how to play his instrument than it is for a consummate player to learn creativity . |