Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [be] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 2 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 3 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 4 | ‘ Unionist ’ has long been a misnomer for both parties of that name in the Province , which are Protestant first and Unionist second . |
| 5 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 6 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 7 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 8 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 9 | Until now his brother Phil has just been a shoulder for his wife to cry on . |
| 10 | The result has already been a bonanza for the founders of small production firms . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 14 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 15 | The relative success of right-wing organisations , compared with left-wing ones , in recruiting among lower-class youth culture has always been a problem for left idealism . |
| 16 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 17 | In the 18th Century Daventry was an important town on the Holyhead coaching road and , lying on four main roads , it has always been a centre for travellers . |
| 18 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 19 | But this has always been a job for the sociable . ’ |
| 20 | Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes — the short and the tall , the squat and the big . |
| 21 | For one reason or another the inner city has always been a target for public regulation and control . |
| 22 | Because class size has always been a cause for complaint in primary schools , some heads used their staffing enhancement to create smaller classes . |
| 23 | Finance has always been a headache for a group whose adherents have often come from amongst the poorest strata of society . |
| 24 | Matisse has always been an artist for discerning buyers and was never speculated in like Picasso and Renoir |
| 25 | CICS has traditionally been a tool for selling IBM mainframes . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ He has previously been a candidate for Sinn Fein in the Assembly elections . |
| 27 | Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world . |
| 28 | Until recently this has never been a problem for Fred and Beth . |
| 29 | Celibacy has never been a problem for me . ’ |
| 30 | TELEVISION has never been a time-filler for me . |