Example sentences of "[pron] be for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 2 | Scums defence is as dodgy now as its been for 3–4 years . |
| 3 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 4 | The British entries received a mixed reception : enthusiasm ( but not from this correspondent ) for ‘ Naked ’ , a study in ‘ gritty realism ’ which won Mike Leigh the prize for best director ; some revulsion over Peter Greenaway 's ‘ The Baby of Macon ’ , which is for strong stomachs ; and mild pleasure for Kenneth Branagh 's ‘ Much Ado About Nothing ’ . |
| 5 | Members of the Youth Conference gave a lively drama impression of ‘ Camp Vincent ! ’ which is for young members of the society , and those who would like to be in the society , to come together to share views , aspirations , experiences of working in the society , and enjoy fellowship together . |
| 6 | The Monktonhall miners have secured a number of lucrative deals , including one with ScottishPower which is for five years and believed to be worth £10 million . |
| 7 | We give to certain proper charities , of course — the Invalid Asylum , which is for respectable females , and the Female Refuge , which is for penitent fallen women , and the Yorkshire Boys ’ School in London , and the Railway Servants ' Orphanage . |
| 8 | There are three chemical treatment plants in the Province , one of which is for in-house wastes only ; so wastes required to be disposed of by high-temperature incineration have to be sent to disposal facilities outside the Province . |
| 9 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 10 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
| 11 | They could match their lending more closely with their borrowing , much of which was for specified periods of time . |
| 12 | Which would be formulated in the pre-election year which was for obvious reasons . |
| 13 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 14 | Here you are for best results treat autumn or spring . |
| 15 | If we do n't know where you are for twelve months or more we have to assume you have abandoned your child . |
| 16 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 17 | The skirt pattern I 've designed for you is for Japanese machines , but I 've also made one for Passap/Pfaff . |
| 18 | The trial of Mohammed Amadou Cissé , who was for many years the Minister of State in charge of Security and personal adviser to former President Mathieu Kérékou , began on July 31 . |
| 19 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 20 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 21 | Well , Barkingside was a big home they also have one out at Ware they also had one at Upshire but the Upshire one were for disabled children . |
| 22 | As an appendix to the Vespers , Monteverdi added two versions of what is essentially the same Magnificat , though one is for six voices and organ only , the other for seven voices and a considerable orchestra . |
| 23 | ‘ But North Korean officials believe that only one is for peaceful purposes , while the others are for military aims . ’ |
| 24 | The second of this months MS-DOS tutors , only this one is for advanced users and covers the organisation of data on disks , etc . |
| 25 | Now that one was for ten years |
| 26 | What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ? |
| 27 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 28 | Well there was for six months . |
| 29 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 30 | At the sampling stage they are for practical reasons equally important , for it is hard to see how investigators could proceed without some recourse to demographic categories such as class , sex , or ethnicity . |