Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] 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 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 3 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 4 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 5 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |