Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 2 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 3 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 4 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 5 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 6 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 7 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 8 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 9 | The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry . |
| 10 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 11 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 12 | Some of the Government 's changes have been for the better . |
| 13 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 14 | The struggle for most of the centres has been for funds . |
| 15 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 16 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 17 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |
| 18 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 19 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 20 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 21 | As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn . |
| 22 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |