Example sentences of "be for [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 2 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 3 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 4 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 5 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 6 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |
| 7 | For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war . |
| 8 | WP It will inevitably be confusing for those in Eastern Europe who mistake the rhetoric of Western ideology for the reality of economic life — just as it is for many in the West . |
| 9 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 10 | If you can find a section of drain that is for most of the time coloured , for any reason whatsoever , then this would be a very good place to start . |
| 11 | Should he go too far , the only repercussion , so long as he remains powerful , is for some of the village members to leave the village . |
| 12 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 13 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 14 | When United held the upper hand , which was for most of the first half , they were more dominant than Aberdeen were after the interval . |
| 15 | In the 19th century and into the 20th there were two Methodist chapels in the village and this was for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion . |
| 16 | When the fashion changed after the war , it was difficult for some older singers , just as it was for some of the stars of silent films when the talkies came in . |