Example sentences of "[verb] be [pron] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been involved with the organisation for 30 years and has been its regional head for a decade . |
| 2 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 3 | I assure the hon. Member for Normanton — with whom it is a pleasure to be debating again ; it has been our daily dose for the past three weeks , and he is a worthy opponent — that my party and I are not living in the past . |
| 4 | Former air-stewardess Jane Thornton , 32 , has been his constant companion for more than a year and shares Mark 's passion for horses . |
| 5 | ‘ That would have been my main reason for marrying him . |
| 6 | Gullholm had been her entire world for almost a fortnight , except for the trip to the nursing home . |
| 7 | It had been her private dream for years to amass a fortune and ease her mother 's life . |
| 8 | It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . |
| 9 | All the anger , frustration and hurt finally exploded into action in violent contrast to the lethargy that had been her constant companion for the past few months . |
| 10 | He and James Frawley had been their virtual creators for the television network and they had seen some excruciatingly successful years . |
| 11 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 12 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |