Example sentences of "been the [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 3 | Ever since the days of Noah 's swimming regattas , the common feature of all sports has been the requirement for physical fitness and the general rule that the fitter you are the better you will perform . |
| 4 | To a large extent , however , fashionable doctrine has been the excuse for actual incompetence and neglect . |
| 5 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 6 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 7 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 8 | The dual division of ecclesiastical power has also been important because the religious orders have often been the vehicle for innovative theologies differing from the Roman line . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes — he 's been the boss for three years . |
| 10 | where the landlord personally intends to occupy the premises for business or residence , and has been the landlord for five years or more ; |
| 11 | Simple extrapolation has been the pattern for five years now , to the point where the financial markets treat it as a game . |
| 12 | The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially . |
| 13 | This situation has arisen particularly in the expansion of the Negro population into white communities and has been the reason for numerous bombings and other types of violence . |
| 14 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 15 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 16 | The conflict itself has given birth to new violations of human rights , which have , in turn , been the impetus for further fighting ’ ( Hewitt , 1982:153 ) . |
| 17 | Ever since we met I 've been the target for veiled accusations and suspicions ! |
| 18 | This would also have been the time for naked women on horseback to lead the community out into the fields , bearing symbols of fertility to ensure a plentiful harvest . |
| 19 | He 's been the manager for 18 months , and in that time has bought their first £1m player , followed it with other seven-figure signings , and taken the club into Europe . |
| 20 | Traditionally , the beat in the city had been the area for serious mischief — the dread of young men playing pitch-and-toss ( the first such incident is reported in 1839 , and the latest in 1979 ) , and the perils of children flying kites . |
| 21 | The second amount bore a twofold significance , since a statute of the previous century stipulated a minimum of £20 per annum for justices of the peace , while two of the sumptuary acts evidently assumed this to have been the minimum for any gentleman by defining a class ‘ under the degree of gentlemen ’ , including university graduates , having £10 a year in lands or £100 in goods — a clear reference , it would seem , to merchants . |