Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 2 | Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years . |
| 3 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 4 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 5 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 6 | I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ? |
| 7 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |