Example sentences of "be for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 2 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 3 | Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored . |
| 4 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 5 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 6 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 7 | Genetic reproduction and expansion has , of course , been for millions of years the basis of animal life and its evolutionary change . |
| 8 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 10 | After all , the Elphbergs are the royal family of Ruritania , and have been for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 12 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 13 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 14 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 15 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 16 | The one on the right read ‘ These seats are only for use by those who can be classified as obese ’ and the one on the left read ‘ These seats are for those of very slim build only ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 18 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 19 | It is I 'm looking for five er may be for each of those companies so that 's thirty people I could be looking for . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's going to be for all of us too ! ’ said Anne 's father thoughtfully . |
| 21 | But this time it will be for all of us to enjoy . |
| 22 | Viscerally , political leaders in all parties recognise that Germany is moving towards reunification , however uncomfortable that prospect may be for one of Germany 's wartime adversaries . |
| 23 | It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’ |
| 24 | If you can not find the card , it could be for one of two reasons : that the library does not hold a copy of the book ; or that the book is of a special kind and is listed under one of the special catalogues . |
| 25 | As to why he has contacted you after all this time , it could be for one of three reasons . |
| 26 | She has signed the long lease for the house inland , it will be for both of them , Deo volente , as she would say . |
| 27 | ‘ The longer they take to find Newley , the better it 'll be for both of us . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps a solution for the JTO 's that are finding difficulty in coping with the current situation would be for those of them that have both hard and grass courts at their club to run a two tier event , i.e. a Series tournament on the hard courts coupled with age group doubles and mixed on the grass . |
| 29 | This may well be for those of you who did in fact agree . |
| 30 | In all 79% ( 23949 of 30253 ) of general practitioner referrals were for one of the seven examinations covered in the guideline booklet ( chest , skull , spine , abdomen , barium investigation , excretion urography , and limbs and joints ) . |