Example sentences of "have be for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
2 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
3 | ‘ Yes , it has been for the last hour . ’ |
4 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
5 | Another important use of statistical grammatical information has been for the grammatical tagging of natural language corpora . |
6 | It is worth restating how radical a leader Mrs Thatcher has been for the Conservative party . |
7 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
8 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
9 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
10 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
11 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
12 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
13 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
14 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |