Example sentences of "[noun] has [adv] [be] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee .
2 The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense .
3 It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles .
4 Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work .
5 Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either .
6 Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family .
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