Example sentences of "[verb] been for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 2 | One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject . |
| 3 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 4 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 5 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 6 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 7 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 8 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 9 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 10 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 11 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 12 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 13 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 14 | These ranged from switching to Highers in non-science subjects when the original intention had been SCE/GCE science to a degree in building and surveying when the original application had been for a place on an access course in science and technology . |
| 15 | In another study , this time of one village Ringmer in Sussex , which had doubled in size from around 2,000 inhabitants in 1961 to 4,000 in 1971 , Ambrose ( 1974 ) found that the main reason for migration to the village had been for a job , or to be within commuting range of a job , thus confirming that the main reason for migration , as already outlined earlier in this chapter , is economic , but also that the most dominant newcomers are Pahl 's ‘ spiralists ’ . |
| 16 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 17 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
| 18 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 19 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 20 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 21 | Here in Scotland I 'm old enough to get married without my parent 's permission , and have been for a year . |
| 22 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 23 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 24 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 25 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |