Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 2 | I emphasise this point because popular topographical books still tend to suggest that any particular place is sited where it is for defence reasons , or because it is near a source of water . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think Simone would have mentioned it if she had n't felt that it was for your own good , ’ he murmured . |
| 4 | Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed . |
| 5 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 6 | When no time is stipulated and it is for the buyer to collect , the seller must be ready to hand over the goods ( against payment ) to the buyer on demand ( provided made at a reasonable hour , section 29(5) ) at any time after the making of the contract . |
| 7 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 8 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
| 9 | When I rang your bank to query this , I was told that it was for supplying information and bank statements to District Audit and that you were going to apply this to all Parish Council accounts . |
| 10 | But I think it 's time , I think we both agree that the time er well used because it 's for the because your Lordship will have a better understanding of the evidence when the plaintiff and the defendant give it from the witness box . |
| 11 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | And the first one is based at a project called and it 's for unemployed people in . |
| 13 | Thus , a lease for less than three years may be validly created on an informal basis , provided that it is for a market , as opposed to a " peppercorn " , rent . |
| 14 | Suddenly one has arrived and everything is for real ! |
| 15 | At the moment I 'm going to have it increased and it is for the , from Friday now . |
| 16 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 17 | I think that feeling has got to be dispelled and it 's for these points that the , for these reasons the government needs to turn its attention a little bit more er to the issues that I that I have raised and I would refer in conclusion Madam de deputy speaker , the minister to the Bank of England 's er memorandum submitted to the treasury and civil service er select committee in its report published on eighth of December last year when at page a hundred and eighty five they draw attention to the European directives that the minister himself referred to . |
| 18 | In Dare it was held that it was for the trier of fact to determine whether an assault was a sexual assault , having regard to all the circumstances involved . |
| 19 | In some of these countries , a copyright notice is required and it is for this reason that the familiar copyright symbol © is used . |
| 20 | In other words it 's not part of its standard employment allocation but it 's put it in the local plan so that people know , the locals know , that that field over there those fields over there erm are not guaranteed for ever as countryside but on the other hand they 're jolly well not gon na be released unless it 's for something extremely special for which there would be a statement carried through from the structure plan , elaborated on no doubt at local level , which set the rules . |