Example sentences of "it [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 32 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 33 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 34 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 35 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 36 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 37 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 38 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 39 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 40 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 41 | All it takes is for society to accept the conviction that the imposed form of existence does more harm than good . ’ |
| 42 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 43 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 44 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 45 | Using objects calls for close observation , and allows pupils to develop hypotheses " What could it have been for ? " |
| 46 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 47 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 48 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 49 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 50 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 51 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 52 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 53 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
| 54 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 57 | Nothing now would have induced Meredith to sign his petition , whatever it had been for . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 60 | 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 . |