Example sentences of "be for [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ? |
| 2 | Market expectations are for little change upwards in the RPI from the latest figure of 7.3 per cent . |
| 3 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 4 | But they are for ever moving and , where they meet in head-on collision , in what is known as a subduction zone , they produce one of the great geological dramas of the planet . |
| 5 | ‘ We are for ever saving each other 's neck , you and I. ’ He halted , striving to get his breath . |
| 6 | That 's the way with scribblers , they are for ever borrowing other people 's quotations . |
| 7 | This may sound obvious , but it is surprising how many editors say they are for ever clearing out photographs which have no identification . |
| 8 | Erm in your opinion er how how suitable do you think the flats are for actually bringing up s a family . |
| 9 | Fagg has put me temporarily in charge and , limited though my power may be , I intend to ensure that those under my care are for once treated like human beings . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They 're for ever repeating themselves . ’ |
| 11 | You 're for ever stuffing your face |
| 12 | With each increase in the average rate of pay , the minimum wage itself would have to go up and it would be for ever chasing its own tail . |
| 13 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 14 | That those eyes which have witnessed the Divine Motherhood should henceforward be for ever lowered in contemplation in an enclosed cloister seems to me entirely fitting . |
| 15 | If spots or downlights are to be inset into a very high ceiling , make sure you have the longest-lasting bulbs possible and that they are very easy to change ; otherwise you 'll be for ever climbing ladders to deal with them . |
| 16 | The implication drawn seemed to be that these two groups were irrevocably separated the practical men being for ever excluded from the highest mystical experiences . |
| 17 | In the vast majority of cases they will of course on the facts be a closed link between the nature of the trade effective between members of states and the competition that is restricted by the contested clause , this is because given that the restriction flows out in the agreement the later sets the context for former , accordingly as a simply matter of fact , restrictions of competition operating relating to the same market in which trade is affected between member of states , a restriction must be appraised in the context of the market , if the parties to the agreement or the high percent market share of the market , then a relatively minor restriction assumes greatest significance , on , firstly , if the parties hold a small share of the market then what appears obstensively be a serious restriction may turn out upon an assessment of facts to be minor or relatively insignificant , contrary to the submission of the plaintiff , the restriction of competition can be determined without a assessment of market , the court of first instance have recently held that the necessement of the market has necessary pre pre-conditioned of any judgement concerning the allegedly and competitive behaviour and your Lordship was taken to that paragraph page ninety two , just siting recently the and the present case the restrictions pleaded that paragraphs forty clements and the two twenty mason were for broadly to restrict the effects upon the insurance market , however the defendants have gone one step further and also identified other markets and sub markets in which the restrictions take immediate impact , this is logical for example in relation to the standard form agency agreement the restrictions have the most direct impact from the sub market to the provision of agencies services to names , competition is effected in this market since complete harmonization of secondary terms and trades are merely the criteria available to names when choosing an agent , however , the standard form contract also effects the wine and insurance market , the fact that the agent has unvetted powers to write any insurance which he sees fit affects the categories of insurance written within this is of course is the matter about which defendant makes complaint . |
| 18 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 19 | The Arup scheme held centre stage , but the public , whose views were for once solicited , showed a very definite preference for the Simpson plan . |
| 20 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 21 | The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly . |
| 22 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 23 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 24 | Similarly , it has been shown that tsunami , or " tidal waves " as they were for long mis-named , have an immense effect on shore-lines , both in erosion and in the shifting of great quantities of sediment . |
| 25 | Have those sexual practices which were for long condemned as " deviant " or " perverted " really become general ? |
| 26 | The key firmly turned in the lock ( ‘ She 's for ever wanting in — to dust her little bits of this and that … ’ ) , we sat over our muffins , our toast , our cakes . |
| 27 | Jean never put any thing away , she always says I 'm going to do it , she 's for ever saying oh |
| 28 | The head said it was important to think about ‘ whatever is best ’ for Balbinder , and went back to what the school catered for — ‘ people think it 's for mentally handicapped ’ . |
| 29 | My apology is for not listening to you when you tried to explain . ’ |
| 30 | This formula is for non-thermostatically controlled heaters . |