Example sentences of "[be] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 2 | Mr Bodlender 's comments are supported by the results of the ninth quarterly Horwath Business Confidence Survey , which shows that Britain 's hoteliers are significantly more confident than they have been for over a year . |
| 3 | Have been for over a week . |
| 4 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
| 5 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 6 | It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’ |
| 7 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
| 8 | It wo n't be for about a year and a half though . |
| 9 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
| 10 | It is that Science is for ever a Search , never really a finding , it is a journey , never really an arrival . |
| 11 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |