Example sentences of "[be] there for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day
2 ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says .
3 Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ?
4 If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time
5 And that 's not counting the numbers who will be there for the week-long build-up .
6 SHOULD YOUR ENTERTAINER BE THERE FOR THE WHOLE PARTY ?
7 She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time .
8 He told me he had been there for a long time dying .
9 Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't .
10 The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time .
11 " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin .
12 I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time !
13 It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission .
14 No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me
15 Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour .
16 The differences are there for an experienced ear to find , as many reviewers of recordings by the institutional choirs of cathedrals and Oxbridge chapels will surely admit with particular alacrity .
17 They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies .
18 ‘ The funds are there for the right project .
19 ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’
20 In 1985 in Washington DC I was responsible for the security co-ordination of eleven prime ministers and twenty other Conservative party leaders from around the world who were there for the International Democrat Union Party Leaders ' meeting .
21 We went there morning and evening every day , and on Sundays we were there for the lengthy session of Sung Eucharist .
22 It is doubtful if the material is there for a first-class combination . ’
23 ‘ I think we 've got to help them because there is still a lot of poverty and the potential is there for a social explosion , ’ he says .
24 Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill ; and it 's there for a full month , till the moon is at the full .
25 ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me .
26 The possibility was there for a tremendous finish .
27 You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it .
28 Yet what alternative was there for a female orator ?
29 I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building
30 And what basis was there for the seventh-century maxim that ‘ the Celtic Church brings love while the Roman Church brings law ’ ?
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