Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 2 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 3 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 4 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 5 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 6 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 7 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
| 8 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 9 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 10 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
| 11 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 12 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
| 13 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 14 | As with school meals , there had been pressure for a generation for free medical treatment of schoolchildren from doctors and philanthropists . |
| 15 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 16 | In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service . |
| 17 | None of these possibilities is countenanced by competition policy in any of the three jurisdictions previously discussed , though there have been calls for a more protectionist approach in the US . |
| 18 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
| 19 | There have been calls for the Bank to issue more debt at the short end , to take advantage of lower short rates . |
| 20 | There have been calls for an inquiry into the problem . |
| 21 | There have been fears for the future of Dangerfield Mills at Hawick since the spinning operation went into liquidation nearly 18 months ago . |
| 22 | We have also seen that for the purposes of civil liability there have been proposals for a generalised statutory scheme for exceptional risks . |
| 23 | Second , in the same area , again there have been proposals for a cyclists ’ crossing of the traffic island to link Bristo Place to George Square , which should also become part of the scheme . |
| 24 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 25 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 26 | In the Waterside ward , where seven seats were available , compared to six in 1989 , there have been gains for the DUP and SDLP . |
| 27 | Local people mutter and march , make speeches and throw things ; staff face sarcasm in nearby pubs ; and for years there have been demands for a public inquiry . |
| 28 | Although there have been proponents for a connection between microbial productivity and Precambrian iron deposition , the paucity of microfossils and low organic carbon content of BIFs has been seen by some to constitute strong evidence against biological involvement . |
| 29 | There 's been concern for the families of radiation workers after a report found clusters of Leukaemia around Sellafield . |
| 30 | There 's been road for a long , long time now . |