Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century . |
| 2 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 3 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 4 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 5 | Never read or listen without being ready to enter a note in the appropriate place where space has been left for such a possibility . |