Example sentences of "have been [noun] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
| 3 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
| 4 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 5 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 6 | Probably , at the present day , such service on such request would have raised a promise by implication to pay what it was worth , and the subsequent promise of a sum certain would have been evidence for the jury to fix the amount . ’ |
| 7 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 8 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 9 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 10 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
| 11 | The death is reported of A. Shanks at Port Askaig where he had been agent for the steamer " Islay " for over 20 years . |
| 12 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 13 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 14 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
| 15 | There have been calls for the Bank to issue more debt at the short end , to take advantage of lower short rates . |
| 16 | There have been fears for the future of Dangerfield Mills at Hawick since the spinning operation went into liquidation nearly 18 months ago . |
| 17 | In the Waterside ward , where seven seats were available , compared to six in 1989 , there have been gains for the DUP and SDLP . |
| 18 | There 's been concern for the families of radiation workers after a report found clusters of Leukaemia around Sellafield . |