Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
| 2 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 3 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 4 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 5 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 6 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 7 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 8 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 9 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 10 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 11 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 12 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 13 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 14 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 15 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 16 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 17 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 18 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 19 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 20 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 21 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 22 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 23 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 24 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 25 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 26 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 27 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 28 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 29 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 30 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |