Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
| 2 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 3 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 5 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 6 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 7 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 8 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 9 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 10 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 11 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 12 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 13 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 14 | Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years . |
| 15 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 16 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 17 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 18 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 19 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 20 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 21 | ‘ Fuck ’ has been around for at least 500 years ( it was listed synonymously with ‘ sard ’ , ‘ swive ’ and ‘ occupy ’ in John Florio 's Worlde of Words in 1598 ) , but the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary protests that its etymology is unknown . |
| 22 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 23 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 24 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 25 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 26 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 28 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 29 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 30 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |