Example sentences of "it be for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safety from Angel One , whom he felt sure had intended to kill them , had n't it been for Grant 's timely arrival . |
| 2 | How will it be for Andrew when the maniac killer is caught ? |
| 3 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 4 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 5 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 6 | ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’ |
| 7 | The children And that were n't for a day , for a night , it were for weeks and weeks on end . |
| 8 | and anyway she rang David up and she said , she did n't say it were for Bet but she said she wanted another two hundred pounds |
| 9 | And then sh Elizabeth had come over by then and I said it 's it 's in her bag , so we had a look at it and her friend said it 's for angina , it always makes her ill ! |
| 10 | ‘ It 's for Disneyland , ’ Claire says . |
| 11 | Er , I mean it 's ancient , it 's for things where you ca n't give a path as an argument . |
| 12 | It 's for reference , he 's not put any reference on this side has he ? |
| 13 | It 's for Windows 3. x and is the first 32-bit X server software for it , generating a 22% to 76% performance increase over the 16-bit XoftWare , says AGE . |
| 14 | It 's for Oxford University to use . |
| 15 | It 's for dictionaries . |
| 16 | It 's for Ruth — she 's in the London Hospital , in Whitechapel Road . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's for Dr Kent . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a stable , but it 's for horses . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's for Troy . |
| 20 | Yeah , well it 's for casserole so |
| 21 | ‘ I organised this little surprise for Luke — it 's for friends only , so I suggest you do as I say and turn around now . ’ |
| 22 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |
| 23 | It 's for luck . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's for luck , ’ said Dora . |
| 25 | It 's for luck . ’ |
| 26 | Now it 's another operation — they 've got to chop the straw up in many cases , they 've got to plough it in , remove it from the field if it 's for livestock bedding — so it 's a new operation altogether . |
| 27 | It 's for spite , I mean , he was , he was quite capable of doing the . |
| 28 | Right , erm , yes , it 's for adults I think , and it 's such things as Leonard Cheshire Homes , er , and I ca n't thing of any other , |
| 29 | But with an animal it 's for life . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and environmental goals , ’ Mr Patten said — a statement that would have jarred on his predecessor , and , until recently , on the party faithful . |