Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] be for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all locked away , you know , Mr Michell , and has been for generations . |
| 2 | According to Spicker , this debate is ‘ moribund and has been for years ’ . |
| 3 | He was drinking like a fish , and had been for weeks . |
| 4 | A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years . |
| 5 | And have been for years |
| 6 | And have been for years , because that does n't take into account the money that is made when , when you know , when , when , sort of development that we have , we have run from home . |
| 7 | But this was by no means a neurotic homosexuality : For them it was a means to a livelihood , as pimping is for others ’ ( p. 180 ) . |
| 8 | In westernized hierarchically stratified societies , the form this linguistic sex-marking has commonly been interpreted as taking is for women to approximate more closely than men of similar status to the prestige norm . |