Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 . |