Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 32 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 33 | St Mary 's had always been a home for Eve ; the fear was that she might find the sister house in Dublin more like an institution , and worse still she might find her own role-there not that of an honoured daughter , but more that of a maid . |
| 34 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 35 | In the 18th Century Daventry was an important town on the Holyhead coaching road and , lying on four main roads , it has always been a centre for travellers . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 38 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The relative success of right-wing organisations , compared with left-wing ones , in recruiting among lower-class youth culture has always been a problem for left idealism . |
| 41 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 42 | Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes — the short and the tall , the squat and the big . |
| 43 | For one reason or another the inner city has always been a target for public regulation and control . |
| 44 | But this has always been a job for the sociable . ’ |
| 45 | Finance has always been a headache for a group whose adherents have often come from amongst the poorest strata of society . |
| 46 | Because class size has always been a cause for complaint in primary schools , some heads used their staffing enhancement to create smaller classes . |
| 47 | The question of capital punishment had always been a matter for individual conscience on a free vote in the House of Commons . |
| 48 | Education had always been a matter for state and local government in the USA and now Kennedy was proposing to give over $2 billion to aid schools , plus over $3 billion to higher education . |
| 49 | Matisse has always been an artist for discerning buyers and was never speculated in like Picasso and Renoir |
| 50 | It is also in keeping with the history of the square which has always been the centre for vendors and street artists . |
| 51 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 52 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 53 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | It was from an old pal of mine , an MP who had earned a splendid reputation as a devoted knowledgeable constituency member , not least because he had also been a councillor for years . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The duke 's first establishment as a junior member of the royal family had probably been created by secondment from the royal household , as had also been the case for his brother Clarence . |
| 59 | The duke 's first establishment as a junior member of the royal family had probably been created by secondment from the royal household , as had also been the case for his brother Clarence . |
| 60 | She thought , since Naylor now knew that she was n't the one responsible for ‘ advertising ’ their ‘ engagement ’ — which had clearly been the reason for his ‘ My office — now ! ’ command — that now might be as good a moment as any to leave . |