Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 4 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 5 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 6 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 7 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 8 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 9 | The red carpet literally was out for him you see . |
| 10 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 11 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 12 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 13 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 14 | not been on for ages . |
| 15 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 16 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 17 | The worst may soon be over for Australian wool farmers . |
| 18 | AFTER The Graduate finished shooting , Dustin returned to New York to live quietly with Anne and her daughter Karina in his small Greenwich Village apartment on West 11th Street , having absolutely no conception of how his performance or the film would be received and not fully realising that the long days of anonymity would soon be over for ever . |
| 19 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 20 | So , surely there could be no objection to someone taking a look at a place that would soon be up for sale anyway ? |
| 21 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 22 | However , the worst may not be over for the embattled Chancellor . |
| 23 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 24 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 25 | Thanks to the number of school boards and the complicated system of voting , the final results will not be in for a couple of weeks . |
| 26 | I mean I do n't know when he 's , he might not be in for another two or three hours , I do n't , I really do n't know . |
| 27 | He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month . |
| 28 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 29 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 30 | I 'll still be around for next World Cup : Nigel |