Example sentences of "[verb] [be] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 32 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 33 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 34 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 35 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 36 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 37 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 38 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 39 | ‘ That you were having an affair — had been for some time . ’ |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | He said it was broken , had been for some time , and that if I wanted a toilet I should go to the cafe upstairs . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 45 | Everything Madonna does is for specific business reasons . |
| 46 | Some of the most effective recruitment campaigns I have worked with have been for limited commitment . |
| 47 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 48 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 49 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 50 | ‘ I think you do follow us , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ and have been for some time . |
| 51 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 ! ’ |
| 54 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 55 | Du n no , oh he 's , he 's what , he 's been for another job interview and the bloke |
| 56 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |