Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be for [adj] " 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 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 5 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 6 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 7 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 13 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 14 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 15 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 16 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 17 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 18 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 19 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 20 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 21 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 22 | What we need is for all of us , men , women and children , to be open to and comfortable with all these feelings . |
| 23 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 24 | There has been for some time in Africa debate concerning the suitability for the Eucharist of wheat bread and grape wine . |
| 25 | There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income . |
| 26 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 27 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 28 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |