Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , gratitude it has to be for the glimpse of a hornbeam 's golden rain of catkin pollen in a sheltered copse where , among primroses and the first bluebells , sorrel shows its delicate pink flowers and ( useful in salads ) triple leaflets , which Saint Patrick used to demonstrate the nature of the Trinity . |
| 2 | The other has to be for the BBC 's Pro-Celebrity Golf at Turnberry about five years ago . |
| 3 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
| 4 | The only proviso is that your holiday has to be for a minimum of five nights . |
| 5 | ‘ Why is it that when I do fall , it has to be for a termagant who drives me out of my head ? |
| 6 | Because er it 's a that 's that 's just the way it has to be for the present , at the end of the |
| 7 | Neither case is an authority on how serious a discrepancy or inaccuracy has to be for a challenge on the ground of mistake to succeed . |
| 8 | He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones . |
| 9 | But , but the words will be in , the clarification needs to be for |
| 10 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 11 | The common response to predator attack appears to be for the cetaceans to flee , often silently , having first formed a tight group if they can . |
| 12 | The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane . |
| 13 | The second possibility is that there may not be the clear difference between fiction and non-fiction for the young reader that then appears to be for the adult . |
| 14 | It is certainly possible to see in the charter deeds of the denomination ( which is what the Book of Common Prayer seems to be for many ) this vision to reach those outside the church . |
| 15 | But the long-term trend in those areas in which the public interest in regulation ( or possibly politicians ' exposure to public criticism ) is perceived to be greatest , seems to be for both the volume of regulation and the role of government in it to increase . |
| 16 | Under the threat of NT the current mood of the industry seems to be for one requirements body , a consistent set of requirements and one open system . |
| 17 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 18 | Thinking about these questions produces the conclusions that are the starting point for Hughes 's paper : that the philosopher 's child invariably turns out to be male and that autonomy seems to be for men only . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the only alternative seems to be for the baby to be looked after by her mother , and she will go and visit in the evenings when her father has gone off to his night work . |
| 20 | Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper . |