Example sentences of "[been] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 2 | NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 5 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 6 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 7 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 8 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 9 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 10 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 11 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 12 | The writing has been a hobby for Vanessa for as long as she can remember but she has recently started trying to turn it to profit . |
| 13 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 14 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 15 | Grandad had been a gardener for the local Big House . |
| 16 | ‘ He had been a prosecutor for eight years . ’ |
| 17 | Their distinctive , disco orientated sound had been a vehicle for the launch of a series of stars , from Princess and Sinitta to Rick Astley . |
| 18 | Clearly , CMHTs have been a vehicle for coordinating the work of a wide variety of professionals involved with mentally handicapped people . |
| 19 | In the 18th Century Daventry was an important town on the Holyhead coaching road and , lying on four main roads , it has always been a centre for travellers . |
| 20 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 21 | He 's been a hillwalker for 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 22 | David Moore had been a pilot for 25 years , flying with the Fleet Air Arm before joining Rolls Royce . |
| 23 | It may have been a stopping-place for drovers — but he could still do Dr Johnson the honour of making lemonade from fresh lemons . |
| 24 | St Mary 's had always been a home for Eve ; the fear was that she might find the sister house in Dublin more like an institution , and worse still she might find her own role-there not that of an honoured daughter , but more that of a maid . |
| 25 | Now how about this feller … he 's been a lock-keeper for thirty seven years . |
| 26 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 27 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 28 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 29 | Because of the difficulties in communication , there has been a tendency for the intellectual abilities of people suffering from cerebral palsy to be underestimated , but this is now generally not the case . |
| 30 | The interpretation of the requirement in practice has varied and there has been a tendency for some companies to understate rather than emphasise the significance of what they have done . |