Example sentences of "have [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 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 14 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 15 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 16 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 17 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 18 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 19 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 20 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 21 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 22 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 23 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 24 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 25 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 26 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 27 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 28 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 29 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 30 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |