Example sentences of "[adv] [been] a [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 2 | ‘ Unionist ’ has long been a misnomer for both parties of that name in the Province , which are Protestant first and Unionist second . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes — the short and the tall , the squat and the big . |
| 5 | There has n't even been a thank-you for all my hard work . ’ |
| 6 | Maybe , in time , realism may prevail , but I see young players with stars in their eyes , and realism has never been a match for that in any walk of life . |