Example sentences of "has [adv] been for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce .
2 The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ .
3 There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position .
4 It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now .
5 It has n't been for three years . "
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