Example sentences of "it [verb] been a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a friend for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 3 | It has been a victory for teamwork . ’ |
| 4 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been a pleasure for me also , ’ said Madame Gebrec . |
| 6 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 7 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 8 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 9 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 10 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 11 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 12 | It had been a preoccupation for several years , but now it was becoming intense . |
| 13 | It had been a march for the jobless , organized by the socialist opposition parties . |
| 14 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 15 | It 's been a godsend for us to go down the street shopping , if you 've got a load of shopping you just stop right outside the gate . |
| 16 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 17 | ‘ I know it 's wrong , Joe , when it 's been a tragedy for so many people , but it 's made life easier for us . |