Example sentences of "be [adv prt] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If their naivety is to be believed , they 're in for more painful disillusionment when someone can bear to break the news to them that the tooth fairy does n't exist and that the singing Madonna is no virgin . |
| 2 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 4 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 5 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 6 | ‘ If Pears was going to be out for only one or two games I would send for Ironside . |
| 7 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
| 8 | He damaged ankle ligaments in the defeat at Chesterfield last Saturday and will be out for about three weeks . |
| 9 | I 'll buy some food for you ; I wo n't be back for maybe thirty hours . |
| 10 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 11 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 12 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 13 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 14 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 15 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 16 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 17 | Its provisions have been around for about three years , since the right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) introduced measures and ideas along those lines . |
| 18 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 19 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 20 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 21 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 22 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 23 | The cows were inside for most of the year , being out for only 4–6 weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ But I believe it would be unfair on him after being out for so long to go straight back in and do a job . |
| 25 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 26 | But it means that she , she has a , a week 's holiday and I think she 's back for about three weeks and then breaks up again at school |
| 27 | So I think he was down for about six months before he left . |
| 28 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |