Example sentences of "[been] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since then , however , standard procedure has been for patrols to study photographs , names and addresses of suspects before leaving security force bases . |
| 4 | She said no she said we have n't been for ages . |
| 5 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 6 | It 's all locked away , you know , Mr Michell , and has been for generations . |
| 7 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 8 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 9 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 10 | Roosevelt might nevertheless have got his way in 1943 , had it not been for developments inside France . |
| 11 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades . |
| 14 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 22 | Some 90% of sales have been for databases , electronic mail systems and Computer Aided Design . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 27 | Kathy made two cups of tea and said firmly , ‘ You are n't yourself , Clare , and you have n't been for months . ’ |
| 28 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 29 | But we have n't been for months . |
| 30 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |