Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The advice I gave the bench and the decision they rightly came to was for a re-trial . ’ |
| 2 | But then it was only going to be for a matter of weeks , so what did it matter anyway ? |
| 3 | A proactive search is undertaken to identify companies and businesses which are not necessarily known to be for sale but which meet the client 's acquisition criteria . |
| 4 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 5 | I think there has always got to be for any executive — and for any employee for that matter — new challenges , new frontiers to keep them enthused . |
| 6 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |
| 7 | The firm 's building , owned jointly by Tajan and his two associates and estimated at FFr80–100 million before the recent slump in Paris property prices , is also reported to be for sale . |
| 8 | Recent vacancies have also tended to be for rather more senior personnel , quite often specifically seeking out prospective partners , and some have offered salaries of over £70,000 for the right person . |
| 9 | In all cases the premises ought to be defined by reference to a plan , probably stated to be for identification purposes only unless the plan is supposed to take precedence over the verbal description of the premises . |
| 10 | Originally scheduled to be for a morning only , the response was so enthusiastic that the meeting grew to an all-day event with a full billing of committed speakers . |
| 11 | Sir , in June nineteen ninety two Mrs Brown er successfully obtained temporary work working for the Nottingham Community Hospice as a nursing auxiliary and the work was initially intended to be for a period of about three months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | When the unions took industrial action against a no-strike clause in the latest contract proposals , Murdoch moved production of his papers overnight to the plant at Wapping — previously said to be for the News of the World alone . |