Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 2 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 3 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 4 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 5 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 6 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 7 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 8 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 9 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 10 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 11 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 12 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 13 | The banks in the background are home for many badgers . |
| 14 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 15 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 16 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 17 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 18 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 19 | It was true , but Wycliffe remembered Emily Pascoe 's words : ‘ … delicate ; you could see she would n't be long for this world . ’ |
| 20 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 21 | But it will be enough for many people that the Poll Tax will cost her the next general election . |
| 22 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |
| 23 | The worksheets themselves are organized into Notebooks which contain 257 pages each ( which should be enough for most mortals ) . |
| 24 | Just the achievement of finishing a triathlon , let alone managing to win one , would be enough for most athletes , but not this one . |
| 25 | That would be enough for most people , but in October South Africa play nine matches in France and follow that with four matches in England . |
| 26 | But the five free 16-bit slots should be enough for most people . |
| 27 | All this , you might think , would be enough for any playwright but , with reckless abandon , Shadwell keeps flinging further ingredients into his rich comic stew . |
| 28 | In general the court should exercise its discretion to set aside a statutory demand if , but only if , it would not be just for those consequences to apply in the circumstances . |
| 29 | We know that er stress er does cause exacerbation of other illnesses and er people can be away for that sort of reason . |
| 30 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |