Example sentences of "[pron] [be] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 2 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 3 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 4 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 5 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 6 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 7 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 8 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 9 | it 's for the first three |
| 10 | This is a decision by the Natural Environment Research Council and it is for the best scientific reasons . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |
| 12 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 13 | It was for the great annual festa of 3 September , with its cattle fairs , bullfights and zarzuelas . |
| 14 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 15 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 16 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |