Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 2 | Although the Church was slow off the mark following the population migration and concentration in the expanding towns during the Industrial Revolution , failure has not been for want of trying . |
| 3 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 4 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 5 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 9 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 10 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 11 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 14 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 15 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 16 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 17 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 18 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 20 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 21 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 22 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 23 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |
| 24 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 25 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 26 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 27 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 28 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 29 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 30 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |