Example sentences of "has [be] for " in BNC.
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| 61 | We duly went back to Sun , which claims there is to a deal , just like it said , has been for months and that it is moving lots of product . |
| 62 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 63 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 64 | The drug AZT , an inhibitor of DNA synthesis , has been for several years the only treatment for those with symptoms of overt AIDS . |
| 65 | One way out of the dilemma has been for larger Japanese companies to reduce transaction costs with outside suppliers by promising continuity in their subcontracting arrangements . |
| 66 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 67 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 68 | Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response . |
| 69 | A strong and consistent recent trend in cinema advertising by major advertisers — as opposed to local stores and restaurants — has been for films to be more or less entertainment , as well as commercial . |
| 70 | Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields . |
| 71 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |
| 72 | Or it certainly has been for me . |
| 73 | The practice has been for the judge to deduct a period for remission which might be earned , and to advise the Home Secretary that what remains is the requirement of retribution and deterrence . |
| 74 | 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 . |
| 75 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 76 | There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income . |
| 77 | There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local . |
| 78 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 79 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 80 | ‘ The Khanate is settled , and has been for some time , ’ his father said dismissively . |
| 81 | It is in the system and has been for as long as I can recall . |
| 82 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 83 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 84 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 85 | He 's his friend , has been for years . ’ |
| 86 | The struggle for most of the centres has been for funds . |
| 87 | His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before . |
| 88 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 89 | has been for , that has actually been the case , has been the problems in terms of actually getting nurses to actually come out and doctors and pharmacists to actually come out publicly . |
| 90 | Everything my husband has done has been for me . |