Example sentences of "been for [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Had it not been for Helmut 's wealth and his travels , we should not have had anything like the variety of food Mme Guérigny put on her table .
32 In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools .
33 ‘ The trend over time has been for Britain to become less important ( in US eyes ) than Europe as a collective , ’ Robert Hunter , vice-president of the Centre of Strategic and International Studies , told the Washington Times .
34 ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’
35 ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more .
36 And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades .
37 It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades .
38 Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style .
39 Persian rugs still possess an undoubted mystique , and are generally more expensive than those from other countries , but price differentials have been steadily eroding , and they are now generally cheaper in comparison to rugs from other countries than they have been for decades .
40 In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me .
41 Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 .
42 Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning .
43 Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning .
44 The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened .
45 He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter .
46 It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer .
47 However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers .
48 If it had n't been for Anna , she 'd have been gone at sunrise .
49 ‘ He would have been , ’ said Ruth , ‘ if it had n't been for Sarah . ’
50 One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time .
51 Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ .
52 ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’
53 I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me .
54 And never once has he been for Instruction . ’
55 ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes .
56 The longing he 'd kindled within her had been for love — his love .
57 Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction .
58 But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office .
59 If it had n't been for Müller .
60 If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable .
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