Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] be [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics .
2 For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally .
3 He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt .
4 Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease .
5 He 's probably been dead for about two years , they have n't noticed !
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