Example sentences of "[verb] been for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |
| 62 | The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system . |
| 63 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 64 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 65 | But that had been for women with no man to protect them , so they had to do whatever they could and were respected for it . |
| 66 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | 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 . |
| 69 | That first contract had been for America , and then came Russia , France , Italy , Germany , South America , the list is endless . |
| 70 | 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 . |
| 71 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 72 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 73 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
| 74 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 75 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 76 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 77 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 78 | At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries . |
| 79 | In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns . |
| 80 | In the eighteenth century the possession of land was still , as it had been for centuries , the only firm basis of influence and power . |
| 81 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 82 | He was drinking like a fish , and had been for weeks . |
| 83 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 84 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 85 | In cases where marriage has been discussed , pregnancy is not unwelcome , and may even have been anticipated , as it had been for Claire , who married her husband when she was five months pregnant . |
| 86 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 87 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 88 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 89 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |
| 90 | On the contrary , such dispositions of honores and patronage were , as they had been for Charles 's predecessors , crucial instruments of royal power in the regions . |