Example sentences of "been for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 2 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 3 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 4 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 5 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |
| 6 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 7 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 8 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 9 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 10 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 11 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 12 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
| 13 | One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject . |
| 14 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 15 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 16 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 18 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 19 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 21 | Cantona tried hard to get involved , and within five minutes might have stolen the show , had it not been for a fine interception by Keith Curle following a fine run and cross down the left by Lee Sharpe . |
| 22 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 23 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 24 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 25 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 26 | The Allied attempt to force the passage of the Dardanelles with capital ships on 18 March could well have succeeded , had it not been for a seemingly insignificant event . |
| 27 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 28 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 29 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 30 | New York was swathed in sunlight and the heat would have been stifling had it not been for a gentle easterly breeze blowing in from the Atlantic . |