Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 2 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 3 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 4 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 5 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 6 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 7 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 8 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 9 | Sell when you can , you are not for all markets . |
| 10 | Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi . |
| 11 | The banks in the background are home for many badgers . |
| 12 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 13 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 14 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 15 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 16 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 17 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 18 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 19 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |
| 20 | The worksheets themselves are organized into Notebooks which contain 257 pages each ( which should be enough for most mortals ) . |
| 21 | Just the achievement of finishing a triathlon , let alone managing to win one , would be enough for most athletes , but not this one . |
| 22 | In general the court should exercise its discretion to set aside a statutory demand if , but only if , it would not be just for those consequences to apply in the circumstances . |
| 23 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 24 | Would be away for some weeks . |
| 25 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 26 | It may be preferably for any payments to be payable to the purchaser and to be stated to be adjustments to the purchase price . |
| 27 | Sheridan will be out for several weeks following knee surgery . |
| 28 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 29 | Thanks to the new guidelines , it 's likely they 'll still be here for many centuries to come . |
| 30 | Anyway , I hope that Spare Rib always continues to be there for all women , and some of us do appreciate the entertaining , interesting and informative magazine Spare Rib is . |