Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has all been good training for his new post . |
| 2 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 3 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 4 | Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities . |
| 5 | The warm spell has also been good news for workers at the factory after a difficult year when 67 people were made redundant when their parent company , Clarke Foods , collapsed last year . |
| 6 | Superdrug claims until now up to sixty per cent of the perfume price has simply been pure profit for the retailer . |
| 7 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 8 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 9 | The Roebuck family had probably been staunch Nonconformists for some time . |
| 10 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 11 | With Chantal there had never been any need for pretence . |
| 12 | With young players of the calibre of Phil O'Donnell , Motherwell have always been unlikely candidates for the drop . |
| 13 | The Netherlands , Switzerland and Luxembourg have traditionally been popular locations for holding companies in Europe . |
| 14 | There have also been financial rewards for staff . ’ |
| 15 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |
| 16 | Literary giants have often been prime subjects for portraiture and George Bernard Shaw was no exception . |
| 17 | Literary giants have often been prime subjects for portraiture and George Bernard Shaw was no exception . |
| 18 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |