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

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31 We duly went back to Sun , which claims there is to a deal , just like it said , has been for months and that it is moving lots of product .
32 They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend .
33 " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor .
34 However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks .
35 Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years .
36 They were both drunker than they 'd been for years .
37 More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use .
38 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 .
39 This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use .
40 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 .
41 First , LAWER is viewed as the caring response of doctor and relatives for the patient , whose wishes , they feel ‘ confident ’ , would have been for life to have been ended .
42 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 .
43 Must have been for Gail then .
44 The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened .
45 It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections .
46 Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner .
47 Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others .
48 In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering .
49 Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity .
50 He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her .
51 Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds .
52 The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend .
53 So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down .
54 Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed .
55 We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk .
56 The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was .
57 Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ?
58 The intention at that time had been for Ian and myself to return to Uist by the ferry in the afternoon but the weather was so bad that the ferryman decided not to chance his luck in the storm .
59 The longing he 'd kindled within her had been for love — his love .
60 He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter .
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