Example sentences of "[vb base] be [noun pl] for [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This of course is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make , but it is one which some economists would argue is not fully justified by the evidence , on the basis of which there have been calls for much more stringent control .
2 The Manager of the year awards are open to Domino 's staff who have been managers for more than nine months .
3 I come from Holland and in Amsterdam toy robots ( especially Japanese ones and deleted ones from Holland ) have been accessories for over a year now .
4 ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’
5 There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith .
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