Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 2 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 3 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 4 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 5 | Nizan 's preferences are clearly for the second and third hypotheses which interconnect . |
| 6 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 7 | The big industrial company , says Mr Chandler , has been the engine of economic growth for the past 100 years , and will continue to be so for the next 100 . |
| 8 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 9 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’ |
| 11 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 12 | like that or your power is cut off because the E the M E B is digging the road up down and they say that your electric will be off for the next |
| 13 | It is n't known whether the South African Richard Snell will be back for a second year . |
| 14 | ‘ Hopefully , it will be back for a second series in September . |
| 15 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
| 16 | You 'd think he 'd have told you he would n't be around for the next week or two . |
| 17 | It is no short-term measure it is the most important development for more than 50 years and it will be around for the next century . ’ |
| 18 | But if you do n't want it preserved , I think it would be so nice to have in college , if only for next year 's students , and you also would be around for the next two years , I mean if you 're doing , if you 're doing a language erm , option next year , or even a language recitation erm , this would be quite nice material to use for that . |
| 19 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 20 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 21 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 23 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 24 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 25 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 26 | But there are twelve fewer non-North American galleries this year , and forty-two dealers nearly twenty-five per cent of the fair are here for the first time . |
| 27 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 28 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 29 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 30 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |