Example sentences of "[vb base] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 32 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 33 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |
| 34 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 35 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Your kind are known to us , Doctor , and have been for longer than you can imagine . ’ |
| 37 | Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons . |
| 38 | To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight . |
| 39 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |
| 40 | And I do n't think they have been for this last |
| 41 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 42 | What we need is for all of us , men , women and children , to be open to and comfortable with all these feelings . |
| 43 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 44 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |