Example sentences of "have [been] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’
2 Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana .
3 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
4 Half of all the records since 1947 have been for the period mid-February to mid-April , particularly March , with 30 per cent. , which suggests that there is a fairly regular , although small , spring movement through the county .
5 As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn .
6 Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips .
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