Example sentences of "be [adv] for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well , I 'm all for that . |
| 2 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |
| 3 | I think that we have a very butch attitude , I think the government has a very butch attitude quite honestly , er to , you know , you 've got to er stand up there and help yourself , and I suppose I 'm all for that , but you 've got to have something to help yourself with , and I think that 's where we ought to be aiming and I 'm very glad that the world 's leaders are heading straight in that direction . . |
| 4 | We know that er stress er does cause exacerbation of other illnesses and er people can be away for that sort of reason . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't pay John any bigger compliment — to be underground for that length of time . |
| 6 | I would like to be here for that . ’ |
| 7 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 8 | For sublanguage processing this may prove to be extremely useful if a large ( raw ) corpus is available , since the word classification will be specifically for that sublanguage type . |
| 9 | yeah but it can , it , it used to be absolutely horrendous at the Tyne Tees valley , well the , you were there for that were n't you ? |
| 10 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 11 | It is precisely for that reason that trust status will be a more successful means of managing the health service . |
| 12 | Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence . |
| 13 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 14 | But it was precisely for that reason that they were likely to lose . |
| 15 | It was principally for that purpose the Task Force was conceived . ’ |
| 16 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |