Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 2 | This lady 's not for shouting down . ’ |
| 3 | The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ . |
| 4 | He was shaking with nerves when he did the most critical audition of his career — for John Gielgud and The Lady 's Not For Burning — and yet he forced himself through it . |
| 5 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 6 | At the 1 980 Tory Party Conference she pronounced stubbornly that ‘ the lady 's not for turning ’ . |
| 7 | Statements such as ‘ The Lady 's not for turning ’ and ‘ Are we going to go back ? |
| 8 | The lady 's not for returning |
| 9 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 10 | His group are not for listening , they 're for telling people . |
| 11 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |
| 12 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 13 | She stood over a great , three-legged cooking pot , but the stew she was pounding with a pole was not for eating : it was the monthly wash . |
| 14 | Murchison the Slinnart bobby was all for killing it and he had a stone raised to despatch it when I said no . |
| 15 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 16 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 17 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 18 | What other reason is there for growing fresh vegetables and flowers near to large cities ? |
| 19 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , the money is n't for racing anyway , ’ he said . |
| 21 | What alternative framework is there for analysing teaching quality ? |
| 22 | They were , first , practical measures such as speed humps to make drivers aware of their speed and thus slow their vehicles ; second , a designed environment that conveys to the driver the fact that the area is one whose function is principally for living not travelling , with a consequent imparted feeling that awareness of soft traffic is imperative ; third , a legal change in priority , so that all occupants of the street space are equal ; and fourth , lest drivers are encouraged to view the new street layout as a challenge to driving skill rather than an encouragement of self-restraint and caution , a new regulation on car speeds . |
| 23 | This is because the output logogen system is solely for producing words , and the input logogen systems can only recognise words — a spoken or printed non-word would not cause an input logogen to respond , and hence non-words can not enter the mental lexicon at all . |