Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For example , the Football ( Offences ) Act 1991 says : ‘ It is an offence for a person … to go onto the playing area … without lawful authority or lawful excuse , which shall be for him to prove . ’ |
| 3 | Just a young man like Johnny , whose life had ended there in the fields of a foreign land , which would be for him , she supposed , forever Germany . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll be for it , my girl ! |
| 5 | It says : ‘ If I am not for myself , who will be for me ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If that gal gets to the keeper 's cottage he 'll phone the police an' we 'll be for it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So you 'd better hurry please , or we 'll be for it . ’ |
| 8 | " They 've gone to turn out the Owsla , and then we 'll be for it right enough . " |
| 9 | It is always possible , though unlikely , that a random sample will , by chance , include a higher proportion of one group of people than there should be for it to be truly representative . |
| 10 | It was hard to see what other political opening there might be for him . |
| 11 | Small pardon there would be for him if Herluin had his way . |
| 12 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , hard as it may be for you to believe , I did come for a reason . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now it is a general rule , that no court of limited jurisdiction can give itself jurisdiction by a wrong decision on a point collateral to the merits of the case upon which the limit to its jurisdiction depends ; and however its decision may be final on all particulars , making up together that subject-matter which , if true , is within its jurisdiction , and , however necessary in many cases it may be for it to make a preliminary inquiry , whether some collateral matter be or be not within the limits , yet , upon this preliminary question , its decision must always be open to inquiry in the superior Court . ’ |
| 16 | How terrible it must be for her to attend this service for Mrs Wright whose baby had survived and while the Padre was speaking the Collector accompanied his words with a silent , sympathetic prayer for Mrs Bennett : " O God , whose ways are hidden and thy works most wonderful , who makest nothing in vain , and lovest all that thou hast made , Comfort this thy servant whose heart is sore smitten and oppressed … " but the rest of the prayer was no longer in his mind , stolen no doubt by the foxes of despair that continued to raid his beliefs … in any case , it faded into a mournful reverie in which he sought an explanation for the death of Mrs Bennett 's child . |
| 17 | It must be for him to decide on the disposition of his force and the concentration of his resources on any particular crime or area . |
| 18 | It must be for him to decide on the disposition of his force and the concentration of his resources on any particular crime or area . |
| 19 | It is for the judge alone to determine facts upon which the admissibility of evidence depends and , similarly , it must be for him to satisfy himself as to matters involved in an application to stay because of abuse or , as the judge preferred , ‘ misuse ’ — of process . |
| 20 | ‘ I opened this by mistake , Oak , ’ he said , ‘ but it must be for you . |
| 21 | Whatever it might be for you , but something that you 're going to have to be thinking about , and while you 're thinking about that you can not be thinking about work . |
| 22 | If not it 'll be for me to tell her lovin' papa that his baby daughter is lost , and what 's the bettin' he 'll be over here on the fastest boat runnin' , to cut my throat for me if anything 's happened to her ? ’ |
| 23 | Fifty P bet it 'll be for him ! |
| 24 | so the more time you 've got to do that , the easier it 'll be for you wo n't it ? |
| 25 | How easy it could be for him — to simply sit in the cockpit of his Foxbat and fly to freedom . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether it was because he realised how hard it 'd be for us to get enough for both of us , or whether he knew he was off his head and needed someone around who was n't , y'know what I mean , to look after the kids and sort things out , like . |
| 27 | Now he 'd be for it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It would be for them to decide what to do with our report . |
| 30 | It would be for her a retreat , a spiritual renewal . |