Example sentences of "has [been] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields . |
| 2 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 3 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 4 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 5 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |