Example sentences of "be for [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of the tape I think er we ought to explain that our management meetings are always run on very serious lines with no , no jokes allowed , er first of all I think we should just place on the record that this meeting is being taped everybody recognises that , and the purposes are for to analyse everybody 's linguistic ability and later on Tracy 's going to recite her piece her presentation for the purpose of the tape . |
| 2 | The swing tickets are for pricing your garments and also for giving washing instructions and fibre content . |
| 3 | However a word of warning : good as these books are for giving you techniques to help you remember strings of unrelated facts , numbers or words , they do not in any way show you how to train your memory to remember other facts in a different context . |
| 4 | ‘ What possible reason would that be for disliking you ? |
| 5 | I would n't even know what the purpose would be for doing it , really . |
| 6 | The enemy prisoners and hurt could be left to find their way back to Roxburgh as best they could , stripped of their arms , armour and anything else worth having — although some of the mosstroopers were for slaying them out of hand . |
| 7 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's for despising your own life , fool , ’ he said calmly , ‘ Learn to kill like a reasoning man when you must , not like a woman crazed with spite . ’ |
| 9 | But the towel 's for wiping your hands on . |
| 10 | ‘ And that 's for deserting me , you bastard ! ’ |
| 11 | That 's for doing your washing oh you , washing , what bloody you 'll . |
| 12 | ‘ The Keeper 's for putting her out of her misery now , Mr Wolski and from a scientific point of view I 'm inclined to agree with him . |
| 13 | Yeah , you could say what it looked like and what was happening and then say , Well I 'm not quite sure what the convention is for writing them |
| 14 | As you construct your argument , you will be obliged to make judgements about how firmly you are committed to each of its ideas , and how strong the evidence is for believing them . |
| 15 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 16 | I mean , your record is for sitting at home and listening to and live is for taking it somewhere different . ’ |
| 17 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 19 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 20 | Yeah , that was for doing your washing |