Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 32 | ( Germany 's unemployment has for long been extremely high , and is currently catastrophically so in the former East Germany . ) |
| 33 | It has for long been held that our modern idea of time derives from that of early Christianity , which in turn can be traced back to that of ancient Israel and Judaism . |
| 34 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |
| 35 | The Bourbon variety ‘ Mme Isaac Pereire ’ , with huge crimson blooms , has for long been widely regarded as the most powerfully scented rose of all . |
| 36 | The subject of dependent nomic conditionals has for long been a disputed one , and part of larger disputed subjects , those of larger categories of " if " statements and of " if " statements generally . |
| 37 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 38 | Whereas in the UK a general degree is a particular type of undergraduate curriculum , in the USA general education has for long been part of everyone 's undergraduate degree , along with electives ( options ) and a major subject . |
| 39 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |
| 40 | The ice mantle has for long overlapped the edges of the continent , unable to grow bigger without breaking off . |
| 41 | A brief literature review of the popular sedimentological journals indicates an increasing emphasis on petrography within Europe , whereas within the United States and Canada sedimentary petrology has for long been a necessary component of integrated sedimentological research projects . |
| 42 | Dick Fletcher who runs New Media , one of Europe 's leading CD-I development companies , has for long suggested a simple rule of thumb for deciding whether a device is a computer or an appliance . |
| 43 | The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools . |
| 44 | While teleconferencing has for long been the province of very large organisations , codec development together with the digitising of telephone networks and the emergence of ISDNs , will bring teleconferencing within reach of a mass market . |
| 45 | Bookselling has for long been stereotyped as a sheltered world , separated from the usual pressures of everday business concerns , where change is almost instinctively resisted . |
| 46 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 47 | From October , with the birth of the British Athletics Federation ( BAF ) , British athletics should finally give the sport the constitution it has for so long struggled to devise . |
| 48 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 49 | The one at Marham in Norfolk incorporates a World War One aeroplane of unspecified type and that at Upwood the Canberra which has for so long been associated with the RAF station . |
| 50 | A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east . |
| 51 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 52 | ‘ It can therefore be seen that variation from place to place in climax tropical lowland rain forest , which has for so long intrigued and challenged ecologists , is not open to any single or simple explanation . |
| 53 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 54 | It is well known , indeed , that Charles Darwin accepted these Lamarckian notions , but what Lamarckism stands for today is the notion that adaptive changes that occur within an animal 's own lifetime somehow are imprinted upon the genome and thus become part of its heritage . |
| 55 | In Hitler 's phrase ( where the word Volk stands for both ‘ people ’ and ‘ nation ’ ) Germany consisted of ‘ Ein Volk , ein Reich , ein Fuhrer ’ , ie , one people/nation , one state , one government . |
| 56 | ‘ She stands for so much . |
| 57 | So that 's what the C really stands for then ? |
| 58 | Well what do you think ARC stands for then ? |
| 59 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
| 60 | ‘ But I know from experience that in cup ties current status counts for little its a question of what you do on the day . |