Example sentences of "it [vb -s] be for " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 33 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 38 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . |
| 40 | All it takes is for society to accept the conviction that the imposed form of existence does more harm than good . ’ |
| 41 | It 's just the way it 's been for years . |
| 42 | You 've no idea how good it 's been for me out here . |
| 43 | But it 's been for about two month now , but it 's |
| 44 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
| 45 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 46 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 47 | Yeah it 's been for sale for a long time . |
| 48 | It 's been for sale for ages has n't it ? |