Example sentences of "be for [det] " in BNC.
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| 91 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 92 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 93 | ‘ The Khanate is settled , and has been for some time , ’ his father said dismissively . |
| 94 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 95 | ‘ I think you do follow us , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ and have been for some time . |
| 96 | For one thing , Kelly 's very happily involved in a relationship and has been for some time , so I 'm quite convinced her eyes wo n't stray towards any ski-bums , no matter how handsome . ’ |
| 97 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 98 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 99 | Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years . |
| 100 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 101 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 102 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 103 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 104 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |
| 105 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 106 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 107 | He said it was broken , had been for some time , and that if I wanted a toilet I should go to the cafe upstairs . |
| 108 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 109 | Bob Gunnell , of course , is an was and has been for some time a very supportive member of South East Arts and active in many of its committees . |
| 110 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 111 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 112 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
| 113 | 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 . |
| 114 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 115 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 116 | Du n no , oh he 's , he 's what , he 's been for another job interview and the bloke |
| 117 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 118 | It is true that there are some fringe benefits available to farm workers ( as there are for many occupational groups ) , but their value amounted to only an estimated £1 per week for free food and a net £2 per week for low-rent tied cottages ( Brown and Winyard 1975 ) . |
| 119 | The ‘ normal minimum admission standards ’ listed in these tables are for many areas of study a realistic indication of the grades likely to be required and applicants who hold these grades stand an excellent chance of being made an offer , eg for most degrees in the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Science and Engineering , and the less pressured areas in the Social Sciences such as Nursing Studies or Social Policy . |
| 120 | It is not the case that social science theories , once their value-components or culture-boundedness have been revealed , are for that reason relegated to the local museum of the social sciences to become an object of quaint curiosity . |