Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be for [pron] " 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 ‘ Well ’ — he pursed his lips — ‘ I sometimes think you should be for your own good .
5 You 'll be for it , my girl !
6 It says : ‘ If I am not for myself , who will be for me ? ’
7 ‘ If that gal gets to the keeper 's cottage he 'll phone the police an' we 'll be for it . ’
8 ‘ So you 'd better hurry please , or we 'll be for it . ’
9 " They 've gone to turn out the Owsla , and then we 'll be for it right enough . "
10 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 .
11 It was hard to see what other political opening there might be for him .
12 Small pardon there would be for him if Herluin had his way .
13 Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate .
14 It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population .
15 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 .
16 ‘ Actually , hard as it may be for you to believe , I did come for a reason . ’
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 And so it must be for your test , you see ?
23 ‘ I opened this by mistake , Oak , ’ he said , ‘ but it must be for you .
24 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 .
25 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 ? ’
26 Fifty P bet it 'll be for him !
27 No , ah , more senior than him , it 'll go to him too , but it 'll be for everybody 's
28 ‘ So you said — but that will never happen , Doreen , and the sooner you wake up to that fact , the better it 'll be for yourself . ’
29 so the more time you 've got to do that , the easier it 'll be for you wo n't it ?
30 How easy it could be for him — to simply sit in the cockpit of his Foxbat and fly to freedom .
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