Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 2 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 3 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 4 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 5 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 6 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 7 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 10 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Couples is a naturally high flighter of the ball and that , together with his length , is an advantage at Augusta , particularly since everyone seems to agree that the greens are firmer than they have been for years . |
| 12 | And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades . |
| 13 | FARM policy reforms agreed by EC members leave farming industry prospects brighter than they have been for years , Agriculture Minister John Gummer told the Commons last night . |
| 14 | Persian rugs still possess an undoubted mystique , and are generally more expensive than those from other countries , but price differentials have been steadily eroding , and they are now generally cheaper in comparison to rugs from other countries than they have been for decades . |
| 15 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 16 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 17 | Mr Bodlender 's comments are supported by the results of the ninth quarterly Horwath Business Confidence Survey , which shows that Britain 's hoteliers are significantly more confident than they have been for over a year . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 20 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |
| 21 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |
| 22 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 23 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 24 | Treasurer Keating had used high interest rates as his main weapon in the struggle to reduce the country 's current account deficit , but they had been for blamed for contributing to the loss of business confidence . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 27 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 28 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 29 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 30 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |