Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Included are warnings for low battery , no tape and condensation ( ‘ dew ’ ) , together with date/time indicators which can be switched off if desired . |
| 2 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them . |
| 4 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 5 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 6 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 8 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 9 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 10 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 11 | The Taxing fee when a bill has been taxed is 5p for each £ or part thereof of the total bill including disbursements and VAT . |
| 12 | Quite who it was built for , how long it was occupied and why it was abandoned are matters for archaeological speculation . |
| 13 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 14 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 15 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 16 | The inadequacy of the rest will have been cause for serious concern in the England camp . |
| 17 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 18 | The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable . |
| 19 | Also discussed were plans for regional broadcasting . |
| 20 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 21 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 22 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 23 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 24 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 25 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 26 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 27 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 28 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 29 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 30 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |