Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 2 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 5 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 6 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 7 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 8 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 9 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 10 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 11 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 12 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 13 | Since an empty house is more of a challenge to burglars and squatters than one where there is lots of activity , you ca n't expect a rebate on your house and contents insurance — in fact your insurance company may even charge an extra premium if you are away for more than30 days . |
| 14 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 15 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 16 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 17 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 18 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 19 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 20 | But do n't think that the benefits of Convocation membership are just for those who now live in the North West . |
| 21 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 22 | The banks in the background are home for many badgers . |
| 23 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 24 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 25 | Others are underway for all other Adult Residential Services , Creches , Play Schemes and After School Provision . |
| 26 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 27 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 28 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 29 | Oh well , I 'm all for that . |
| 30 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |