Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [be] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
| 2 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 3 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 4 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 5 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 6 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 7 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 9 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 10 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |