Example sentences of "[vb -s] be for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 2 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 3 | One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject . |
| 4 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 5 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 6 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 7 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 8 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 9 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 10 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 11 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 12 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 13 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 14 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 15 | Jim 's been for a , this afternoon at the Hart and Straw Club |
| 16 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 17 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |