Example sentences of "[adv] [been] a [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 2 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 3 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 4 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 5 | The result has already been a bonanza for the founders of small production firms . |
| 6 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 7 | But this has always been a job for the sociable . ’ |
| 8 | Finance has always been a headache for a group whose adherents have often come from amongst the poorest strata of society . |
| 9 | Duncan , a Cambridge graduate , had also been a candidate for the post when Peirson had been appointed in 1647 , but the Company , anxious to avoid any trouble and to be reconciled with the townspeople , had on both occasions chosen Stockport 's nominee . |
| 10 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 11 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 12 | If he 's no been a manager for a while , having worked ‘ outside football ’ , people start gossiping about his inability to sell foot-salve . |
| 13 | He had truly been a contender for the middleweight title until the severe chest wound he sustained during the heavy fighting in France had cut short his promising career . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Liking , let alone loving , had never been a requisite for the majority of men whose capacity for making love was triggered more by the physical attributes of a woman than the quality of her personality or character ! |