Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that the test is there for your benefit alone , not for anything or anyone else . |
| 2 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 3 | Right , erm , as you 've heard , this policy is basically for your protection , but it does over a number of years , acquire a bit of savings . |
| 4 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |
| 5 | Brother Rhun , Saint Winifred 's devoted cavalier , turned his beautiful head instantly to look towards her altar , his first jealous care being always for her service and worship . |
| 6 | My lord of Gloucester displays the utmost affection for his nephews — his care is solely for their welfare and he judges that Prince Richard 's place at this auspicious time is with the king his brother . |
| 7 | Of course , the genial Ulsterman is an entertainer as well as a sportsman these days and the audience was there for his jokes as much as his trick shots . |
| 8 | ‘ Dad 's home for his dinner . |
| 9 | Of course , you do not have to do things one of the standard ways if a system is only for your own use , and compatibility with someone else 's bar code system is not needed . |
| 10 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 11 | The idea that the rest of creation is here for our benefit makes no sense biologically , but the idea is so widespread in society and so deeply ingrained in our approach to life , that it gives rise to an arrogant and destructive ‘ hubris ’ . |
| 12 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 13 | His hair was almost black , heavy and smoothly groomed , swept back from a face that was icily cold , only the long , humorous-looking mouth telling her that this hostility was solely for her benefit and not some natural mannerism . |