Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been off drugs for three months . |
| 2 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 3 | Consequently there is no topic that is off limits for discussion , even if a few are off limits for experimentation . |
| 4 | I mean I think that there still are quite a few areas that are off limits for women , but in those areas where women have gained admittance , have they gained acceptance ? |
| 5 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 6 | But now living in South London he has n't been behind bars for ten years . |
| 7 | The windows of the dingy shops are like cemeteries for unloved and unwanted goods — limp floral print dresses , yellowing underwear , flyblown chocolate boxes and dusty plastic toys . |
| 8 | It 's been under wraps for weeks , but now the political biography everyone 's talking about has finally arrived . |
| 9 | Rachel Douglas ( left ) has been with Sekers for 19 years and Diane Madine for 17 years . |
| 10 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 11 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 12 | I have n't been in wards for about twenty two years . |
| 13 | Because it has been in reactors for so long , this sort of plutonium is not best-suited to nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 15 | These latest examples are from books for older children . |
| 16 | Now those are in years for consistently what we have done is we have held those savings in order to do what we said earlier , prune this council back and we structured the organisation by pruning back on staff and that 's why th the vacancies had run as high as they have . |
| 17 | The large share of " other " personal service and " other " operatives working on a temporary basis is explained by the fact that they are in jobs for which little training is necessary . |
| 18 | Plans to revise that law , which dates from 1936 , have been discussed for decades , and have been before legislators for eight years . |
| 19 | But , with the run of his luck , how things stood , in what , so they said , were the best years of his life , he would be in chains for the rest of them . |
| 20 | I 've only been here a month meself , and I 'm on nights for the extra money . |
| 21 | Your microhabitat may be without occupants for a long time , but usually some animals will reach it in the end . |
| 22 | In his Championship-winning days , Smith would be without goals for four or five games then find them flowing in the next five or so . |
| 23 | If he does , he will be at odds for the first time with the hordes of admiring supporters who could not conceal their disappointment when news of Ronnie Whelan 's late equaliser at Highbury was announced just before the kick-off . |
| 24 | For twenty years the 16+ has been to educationalists what the Irish Question has been to politicians for somewhat longer : it has consumed enormous energy , made and destroyed reputations , absorbed and dissipated creativity and made most men and women with common sense as well as intelligence adopt the stance of peripheral critics . |
| 25 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 26 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 27 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 28 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 29 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 30 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |