Example sentences of "be for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 2 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 3 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 4 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 5 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 6 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 7 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 10 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 12 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 15 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 18 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 20 | The S A S have operated in Northern Ireland and have been for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 22 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 23 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 24 | Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more |
| 25 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 26 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 27 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 28 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 29 | The original plan had been for a rapid take-over of military and political control in Madrid , accompanied by risings in the other main cities and the convergence on the capital of detachments from the provinces to consolidate the coup and force the transfer of power . |
| 30 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |