Example sentences of "[pron] be for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 'm for another round of toast , ’ said Chico . |
| 2 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 3 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 4 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
| 5 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 6 | She 's for this house . |
| 7 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 8 | The trial of Mohammed Amadou Cissé , who was for many years the Minister of State in charge of Security and personal adviser to former President Mathieu Kérékou , began on July 31 . |
| 9 | What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ? |
| 10 | What possible justification could there be for such coldness ? |
| 11 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 12 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 13 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 14 | ‘ When you are with the only woman — the only one you think there is for that moment — you must love her and know her body as you would think a great musician would orchestrate a divine theme . |
| 15 | ‘ All I can say is that I recognise the incredible enthusiasm that there is for this sport among a section of the listening public — especially Daily Telegraph readers . |
| 16 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 17 | They are for that area on the Greater York study . |
| 18 | Every day couples meet who are amazed at how right they are for each other — proof that Dateline works ! |
| 19 | Because they occupy key positions in primary care , they are for most people the most accessible caring profession , and psychiatry is considered by doctors to be primarily their occupational territory . |
| 20 | Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund . |
| 21 | They are for some reason most dreadfully at home in Paris — ‘ |
| 22 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 23 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 24 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 25 | What will it be for that clef ? |
| 26 | Norway 's preoccupation is therefore not how to meet its own energy demand , nor will it be for many years , but how best to exploit its hydrocarbon wealth . |
| 27 | If the latter , can it be for any offence or only for a serious one , and is the offence in the problem sufficiently serious ? |
| 28 | It 's for all week so I 'll see you tomorrow afternoon . |
| 29 | It 's for that reason people like us read , ai n't it , Gal ? ’ |
| 30 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |