Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [be] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 10 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 11 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 12 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 13 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 14 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 15 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 16 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 17 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 18 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 19 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 20 | 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 . |