Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 2 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 3 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 4 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 5 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 6 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 7 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 8 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 9 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 10 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 11 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 12 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |