Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the shoeshiners you 've said ‘ Mañana ’ to are waiting for you . |
| 2 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 3 | How long are you going to be gone for ? ’ |
| 4 | It was to be the holiday of a life-time and they hoped to be gone for two or three months . |
| 5 | Presently Mrs Mantini went out , to be gone for her usual two hours before closing-time . |
| 6 | It seems to be gone for a long time . |
| 7 | Donald Davie , in a dispirited essay called ‘ Criticism and the Academy ’ , ruefully acknowledges that the belletrist criticism of men of letters such as Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly ( unequal figures , these , one has to remark ) might have more to be said for it than he , as a lifelong academic , would be happy to acknowledge : |
| 8 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 9 | Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable . |
| 10 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 11 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 12 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 13 | There 's a lot to be said for making the trench in autumn , chucking in household waste all winter and replacing the soil in spring . |
| 14 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 15 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 16 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 17 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 18 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 19 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 20 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 21 | There is something , at least , to be said for the old order : ‘ Educational injustice enabled people to preserve their illusions , inequality of opportunity fostered the myth of human equality . ’ |
| 22 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 23 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |
| 24 | There is nothing to be said for propounding the philosophy of history if you do not know the date of the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a lot to be said for the barn method . |
| 26 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 27 | There is often much to be said for trying to sort the matter out by pursuing your rights under your company 's grievance procedure . |
| 28 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 29 | There is much to be said for interpreting a modality such as ‘ when he reaches the age of sixteen ’ as a condition rather than a term . |
| 30 | Bernard Dixon thinks there is a lot to be said for following how research results are taken up |