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

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1 The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself .
2 Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location .
3 The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state .
4 Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead .
5 Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough .
6 Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects .
7 " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt .
8 Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields .
9 Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response .
10 But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’
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