Example sentences of "[vb base] be [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once SAVE 's case for the significance of the building was made , its retention as part of the London scene was accepted by all the parties involved . |
| 2 | The posts stuck into the rock to your right as you ascend are markers for winter to stop people going off the edge ; they also double as abseil posts for a quick escape route . |
| 3 | All you pay is £1.99 for membership . |
| 4 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 5 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 6 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 7 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 8 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 9 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 10 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 11 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 12 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 13 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 14 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 15 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 16 | We have also seen that for the purposes of civil liability there have been proposals for a generalised statutory scheme for exceptional risks . |
| 17 | Second , in the same area , again there have been proposals for a cyclists ’ crossing of the traffic island to link Bristo Place to George Square , which should also become part of the scheme . |
| 18 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 19 | In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service . |
| 20 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 21 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 22 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 23 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 24 | There might , indeed , have been scope for compromise on some of these issues . |
| 25 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 26 | On a sale of a private company , or if there have been reorganisations for taxation purposes , it is common for the seller to require the contract to be conditional on a clearance under s.703 ( cancellation of tax advantage ) and any other applicable tax provisions . |
| 27 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 28 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
| 29 | There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified . |
| 30 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |