Example sentences of "[verb] [be] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amounts given are for a tank : |
| 2 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 3 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 4 | One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject . |
| 5 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 6 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 7 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 8 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 9 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 10 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 11 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 12 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 14 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 16 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 17 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 18 | The example we shall give is for a person who starts the regime moderately overweight and whose normal meals are fairly typically too high in fat , sugar , and salt , and too low in fibre . |
| 19 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 20 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 21 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 22 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 23 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 24 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 25 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 26 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 27 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 28 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 29 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 30 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |