Example sentences of "[verb] be for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 2 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 4 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 6 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 7 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 8 | Another important use of statistical grammatical information has been for the grammatical tagging of natural language corpora . |
| 9 | It is worth restating how radical a leader Mrs Thatcher has been for the Conservative party . |
| 10 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 11 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |
| 12 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 13 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |
| 14 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 15 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 16 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 17 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
| 18 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 19 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 20 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 21 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 22 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 23 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 24 | The original plan had been for a rapid take-over of military and political control in Madrid , accompanied by risings in the other main cities and the convergence on the capital of detachments from the provinces to consolidate the coup and force the transfer of power . |
| 25 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 26 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 28 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | The rates quoted are for a single person in 1989/90 . |