Example sentences of "[vb mod] be for they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We appreciate just what a disaster this decision must be for them … |
| 2 | We also run a summer school called Women into Physics , which is a rather strange title , but the idea basically is to persuade , if not encourage , young girls who have just taken their O levels that physics is a subject which could be for them — it 's not unladylike about being a scientist and , in particular , being a physicist . |
| 3 | The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame . |
| 4 | They build up in your tank , unless replaced by regular water changes , and while fish seem able to stand a steady build -up , however unpleasant it may be for them , new fish will die when introduced to higher levels . |
| 5 | The alternative , if three of the commoners continued to hold out , would be for them all to claim compensation for lost rights from the Lands Tribunal . |
| 6 | The further west Allied aircraft could be stationed , the easier it would be for them to protect the sea lanes which were vulnerable to enemy air power based in Sicily and Crete . |
| 7 | This is the relevance of rules ; for the courts to embrace such an issue would be for them to breach the long-standing settlement with regard to the boundaries of parliamentary privilege ( see below , pp.113–19 ) and they would not do it . |
| 8 | But a better answer would be for them to be prohibited from driving cars above 1.3 litres — a common engine capacity — until they are 25 . |
| 9 | It would be for them to decide what to do with our report . |
| 10 | How each generation of parliamentarians in member states will try to guide the community 's political institutions will be for them to determine . |
| 11 | They feel that the more control they can exercise over their surroundings , the safer life will be for them . |
| 12 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |