Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin .
2 It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round .
3 The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s .
4 Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day .
5 She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night .
6 Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays .
7 looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without
8 Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’
9 Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores .
10 The couple are together for 90 minutes on a visit to a Nottingham hospital .
11 Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels .
12 I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them .
13 Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years .
14 you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er
15 Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade .
16 In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person .
17 Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ?
18 Where payments are only for investigatory fees incurred by General Accident
19 He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work .
20 ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’
21 We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together .
22 They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else .
23 They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school .
24 Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say .
25 And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said .
26 Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history .
27 Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot .
28 I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone .
29 They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends .
30 Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks .
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