Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [modal v] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the wind is strong , which it can be for several days in a row , sailing is brisk but safe in the local sheltered area . |
| 2 | If a local compromise between capital and labour is helpful to both accumulation and the standard of living of labour ( which it can be for a time ) , then most factions of the bourgeoisie and the working classes may support it . |
| 3 | Whatever it might be for you , but something that you 're going to have to be thinking about , and while you 're thinking about that you can not be thinking about work . |
| 4 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 5 | It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " . |