Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [be] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’
2 Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ?
3 A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’
4 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
5 ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’
6 But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’
7 Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time .
8 I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’
9 She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time .
10 But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade .
11 The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately .
12 My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time .
13 During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while .
14 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 .
15 The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent .
16 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 .
17 The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time .
18 Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years .
19 This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) .
20 This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) .
21 ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time .
22 Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years .
23 Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well !
24 ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time .
25 ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time .
26 One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’
27 Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’
28 In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well .
29 McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent .
30 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 .
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