Example sentences of "[verb] [be] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And has been for over 40 years . |
| 2 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 3 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 4 | It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long , which is totally unacceptable . |
| 5 | It is in the system and has been for as long as I can recall . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir Ralph Grunte , and has been for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 7 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
| 8 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 9 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 10 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 11 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 12 | That might have been for very good environmental and health reasons . |
| 13 | So , that one must have been for abroad |
| 14 | It could not have been for offside . |
| 15 | The equipment listed is for up to 40 windsurf guests in 1990 , but during the year there will be updates and replacements . |
| 16 | She was dead already , had been for not less than twelve hours according to the doc . ’ |
| 17 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 18 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 19 | No , it was Marguerite Bryant now and had been for over fifteen years . |
| 20 | Had been for about eighteen months . ’ |
| 21 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |
| 22 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 23 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 24 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 25 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 26 | ‘ I am his girlfriend and have been for sometime , ’ she said last night . |
| 27 | Have been for over a week . |
| 28 | Mr Bodlender 's comments are supported by the results of the ninth quarterly Horwath Business Confidence Survey , which shows that Britain 's hoteliers are significantly more confident than they have been for over a year . |
| 29 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |
| 30 | As for people in Leeds being sick of the Manc hype , people in Manchester are sick of the Manc hype and have been for as long as people from Leeds have been tramping across the moors in their flares and Kickers to buy ‘ God created Manchester ’ tops and to dance at the Haçienda . |