Example sentences of "[vb past] be for " in BNC.
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| 61 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 62 | The nearest one had been for the use of the Conway 's house , the second one was for the use of Tommy Grant and his family . |
| 63 | 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 . |
| 64 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 65 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 66 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 67 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 68 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 69 | The original intention had been for the expedition to sail on 10 February but the usual bad weather made this impossible and Ormonde became progressively more reluctant to leave , suspecting that all hope of surprise had now been lost . |
| 70 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 71 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 72 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 73 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 74 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 75 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 76 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 77 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 78 | The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was . |
| 79 | Nothing now would have induced Meredith to sign his petition , whatever it had been for . |
| 80 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 81 | The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic . |
| 82 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 83 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 84 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 85 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 86 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 87 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 88 | While there clearly was an ‘ objective ’ discontinuity of subject perspective between selective school mathematics and the practice of some segments , increasingly dominant within some countries , of university mathematics , and had been for some years , it again required interested actors , utilizing the climate of ‘ crisis ’ resulting from the campaign on teacher supply as a major resource , to enter various arenas in order to persuade others of the ‘ need ’ for change . |
| 89 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 90 | At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries . |