Example sentences of "be [verb] for [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 2 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 4 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 5 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 6 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 7 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 8 | Darlington health authority 's budget has been frozen for the next four years prompting a review of spending priorities . |
| 9 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 10 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 11 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 12 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 13 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 14 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 15 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 16 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’ |
| 18 | They 're based for the next few weeks at RAF Lyneham , which is proud to be playing host to one of the most spectacular display teams in the world . |
| 19 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 20 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 21 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 23 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 24 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 25 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 26 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 27 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 28 | Entries are invited for the Fifth Annual PA Awards for Innovation in Building Design and Construction . |
| 29 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 30 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |