Example sentences of "thing [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord may , may well be right , would , would the best thing be for simply er for Mr clerk to get in contact with your clerk and to try and arrange er with all the other clerks to try and arrange a system , mutually convenient time in the nearest possible future |
| 2 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 3 | ‘ And one thing 's for sure , ’ she continued in her big voice , ‘ your mother will never have a cough . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ One thing 's for sure , lad , we are going to get the swines who are responsible for this . ’ |
| 5 | But one thing 's for sure . |
| 6 | One thing 's for certain — she lies through her teeth every time I ask her something . ’ |
| 7 | One thing 's for certain , though : committing this kind of money on equipment is a serious business , so buying all the components from the same company makes sense from the back-up point of view , and as the hard work has been taken out of the design — ie. flightcase , patch cables , mains feeds etc. — it makes even more sense . |
| 8 | That 's a tricky one , but one thing 's for sure : it 's much , much harder to make a worthwhile Rickenbacker copy than a worthwhile Fender copy , and I should imagine that Rickenbacker themselves view these particular replicas as a bit of an insult . |
| 9 | Well one thing 's for sure , it 's not the music shops . |
| 10 | One thing 's for sure , the sons and daughters of all those rich Tories who bulldozed through this crackpot curriculum wo n't be hindered in any way . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , one thing 's for sure , ’ William 's grandad said , ‘ he ca n't have escaped along a railway line with a horse and cart , not even the po-lice are going to believe that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , one thing 's for sure , if there 's going to be another saviour it wo n't be a Jew ! ’ |
| 13 | One thing 's for certain , the Apple desktop publishing machine is going to keep moving forward . |
| 14 | One thing 's for sure , the situation will change very soon . |
| 15 | Well , one thing 's for sure — if people are rude about her , she makes sure she gives as good as she gets . |
| 16 | One thing 's for sure : ‘ Toy Boys ’ they ai n't , unless you 're talking vintage Dinky . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , one thing 's for sure , ’ said Georgiades . |
| 18 | What we should be looking at is how to maximum our potential to further the trade union interests in the process of European integration , because one thing 's for sure . |
| 19 | One thing 's for certain , Horton is a bollocks manager who could n't inspire fish to swim . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe , yet one thing 's for sure — I 'm not going to lose you . |
| 21 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 22 | One thing 's for sure : it will be a tight race . |
| 23 | One thing 's for certain , it wo n't be far the lack of trying if we go down . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Because one thing 's for sure — I 'm never going to feel at ‘ ome ‘ ere . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 26 | one thing 's for certain any dream will do . |
| 27 | Oh God one more person asking me what this thing 's for , yeah , tonight I 'm gon na fucking go mad . |
| 28 | One thing 's for sure , they 're working on it . |
| 29 | One thing is for certain — the role of the independent producer is secured . |
| 30 | One thing is for certain . |