Example sentences of "[noun] has 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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