Example sentences of "[be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ James — I am for staying here — do you agree ? ’ |
| 2 | How glad I am for them ! |
| 3 | ‘ However , I am for frankness in these matters . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 5 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 6 | Since I , without the benefit of tax relief , am paying as much as I am for the Monarchy , I would like them to do what they have to do in silence . |
| 7 | " Miriam , " she said instead , " I can not tell you how worried I am for Harry . |
| 8 | Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own . |
| 9 | I am for a start . ’ |
| 10 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 11 | I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep . |
| 12 | ‘ I am for King Stephen . ’ |
| 13 | ( Or groundsperson , as you quickly modified it to , though let me assure you grateful as I am for your awareness of the issues involved that I have no simplistic sensibilities to be offended in this area . ) |
| 14 | " But think how good I am for you . |
| 15 | no , and mean end up doing separate stew mum I am for myself it 's not fair that because I ca n't eat |
| 16 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 17 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 18 | Have been for over a week . |
| 19 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 20 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 21 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 22 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 23 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 24 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 25 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 26 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 27 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 28 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 29 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 30 | In the course of these policies , one or the other restrictive practice has been singled out as the root cause of our ills — resale price maintenance , clearing banks ' cartel , trade unions — the cry has been for their removal . |