Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 2 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 3 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 4 | And never once has he been for Instruction . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 6 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 7 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 8 | He says it 's for tourists and people who 've read the novels who want to refresh their thoughts . |
| 9 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |
| 10 | She says it 's for ducks . |
| 11 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 12 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 13 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 14 | It seems it is for hours , but neither of us are fighters . |
| 15 | She 's coming round , sh you know , she understands it 's for her benefit as well because the doors on the council houses they 're like that , just rotten ! |
| 16 | Once he is satisfied that the law as he understands it is for Mrs. McLoughlin , he will feel justified in deciding in her favour , whatever the present legislature thinks and whether or not popular morality agrees . |
| 17 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 18 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 19 | Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children , but only where it can clearly be shown that the interests of the children require it should the court refuse to order their return . |
| 20 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , DEC watcher Terry Shannon of Gander Resources claims DEC taped out an Alpha Lite LC ( for low cost ) chip last month and believes it is for the so-called Triumph Alpha PC which he says is scheduled to move next March . |
| 22 | ‘ It 'll be the press gang for thee if we do n't run off , and God knows what 's for me without thee . ’ |