Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 2 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 3 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 4 | It is possible that one of the epitaphs Leapor wrote was for Mary Freemantle , rather than for her own mother as first seems likely [ ML , 1 , 263 ] . |
| 5 | Lawrence , Sibylle Zuckermann has been for the last six years teaching a Senior Citizens ' class . |
| 6 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 7 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The trend in the UK has been for the pyramid to become flattened as many organisations have striven to reduce their layers of middle management to take account of new technology and cut costs . |
| 10 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 11 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 12 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |
| 13 | It is worth restating how radical a leader Mrs Thatcher has been for the Conservative party . |
| 14 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 15 | Everything Madonna does is for specific business reasons . |
| 16 | Jim 's been for a , this afternoon at the Hart and Straw Club |
| 17 | What Harry Truman wanted was for Douglas MacArthur to behave himself , he wanted Douglas MacArthur to stop giving impromptu press conferences , he wanted him to stop inventing strategy as he went without reference to the president , he simply wanted to restore the chain of command . |
| 18 | The most dramatic rise in cautioning in England and Wales has been for adult offenders . |
| 19 | That dalmatica that Tony sent is for you to wear , it 's not a pudding cloth for making spotted dick in . |