Example sentences of "[verb] [be] for [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 2 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 3 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 4 | The Foxley Wood project from Consortium Developments which Mr Patten 's predecessor said he was ‘ minded ’ to allow was for 4,800 new houses in a large shallow quarry and conifer plantation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |