Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 2 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 3 | In general the court should exercise its discretion to set aside a statutory demand if , but only if , it would not be just for those consequences to apply in the circumstances . |
| 4 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 5 | Thanks to the new guidelines , it 's likely they 'll still be here for many centuries to come . |
| 6 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 7 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 8 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 9 | have n't been there for many years |
| 10 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 11 | It was true , but Wycliffe remembered Emily Pascoe 's words : ‘ … delicate ; you could see she would n't be long for this world . ’ |
| 12 | Although many would now see this HCF model as pushing RE into a backwater if it is pursued on its own , it is still a highly influential view , and is likely to go on being so for some time because Agreed Syllabuses on the whole encourage it . |