Example sentences of "be [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 2 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 3 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 4 | It was true , but Wycliffe remembered Emily Pascoe 's words : ‘ … delicate ; you could see she would n't be long for this world . ’ |
| 5 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 6 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 7 | ‘ Looks like we 're going to be in for some pretty flamboyant fielding from the West Indies ’ |
| 8 | We could be in for some dramatic sea level changes because of climatic change ; volcanic action could have quite a bearing on that . |
| 9 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 10 | AGONY Aunt Marje Proops , who confessed to an adulterous 30-year affair with a bachelor lawyer , may be in for more agony still . |
| 11 | So it seems Wimbledon , who have cashed in on £12 million of talent since winning the FA Cup in l988 , could be in for more money . |
| 12 | Watching him , Polly saw his jaw tighten , but all he said was , ‘ It looks as if we might be in for another blow . ’ |
| 13 | We could be in for another round of musical manager 's chairs |
| 14 | He wo n't be in for another oh God knows . |
| 15 | I mean I do n't know when he 's , he might not be in for another two or three hours , I do n't , I really do n't know . |
| 16 | But it will be enough for many people that the Poll Tax will cost her the next general election . |
| 17 | Manufacturers publish tables showing the different sizes of guttering which should be used for different sizes of house but , as a rule of thumb , 100mm ( 4in ) or 112mm ( 4½in ) guttering with 68 or 69mm ( 2¾in ) downpipe , which will cope with 110 sq m of effective roof with a central downpipe ( or 55 sq m with an end pipe ) , should be enough for all but the largest houses . |
| 18 | At the current rate of use of some 1.5 x 10 12 cubic metres per year , this should be enough for another 50 years or so . |
| 19 | As his firm , predatory fingers stroked her body , following her soft curves with a barely restrained urgency , she wondered if it would be enough for either of them if she were to withdraw now from their headlong fall into physical ecstasy . |
| 20 | That would be enough for most people , but in October South Africa play nine matches in France and follow that with four matches in England . |
| 21 | The worksheets themselves are organized into Notebooks which contain 257 pages each ( which should be enough for most mortals ) . |
| 22 | But the five free 16-bit slots should be enough for most people . |
| 23 | Just the achievement of finishing a triathlon , let alone managing to win one , would be enough for most athletes , but not this one . |
| 24 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |
| 25 | All this , you might think , would be enough for any playwright but , with reckless abandon , Shadwell keeps flinging further ingredients into his rich comic stew . |
| 26 | But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so . |
| 27 | In general the court should exercise its discretion to set aside a statutory demand if , but only if , it would not be just for those consequences to apply in the circumstances . |
| 28 | It would take most of the silver he had on him and that would be just for half an ounce of what was needed . |
| 29 | We know that er stress er does cause exacerbation of other illnesses and er people can be away for that sort of reason . |
| 30 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |