Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 2 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 3 | And if MPs on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies what can we suppose the money they receive is for ? |
| 4 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 5 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 6 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 7 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 8 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 9 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 10 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 13 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 14 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 15 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 16 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 17 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 18 | Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly ! |
| 19 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 20 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 21 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 26 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 30 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |