Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA . |
| 2 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 3 | The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry . |
| 4 | Some of the Government 's changes have been for the better . |
| 5 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 6 | The figures quoted are for a mix of wastes requiring incineration . |
| 7 | The rates quoted are for a single person in 1989/90 . |
| 8 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 9 | The amounts given are for a tank : |
| 10 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 11 | As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn . |
| 12 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 13 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |