Example sentences of "[adv] been a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 2 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 3 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 4 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 5 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 6 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 7 | It has not only been a victory for Mr Major : it has also put an end to the leadership crisis Mr Heseltine created in 1988 . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 9 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 10 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 11 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 12 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 13 | The increasingly related and intertwined fields of education and training have for long been a battlefield for learning technologies . |
| 14 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 15 | Prostitution , drunkenness , vagrancy and other ‘ unrespectable ’ manifestations of urban popular culture had long been a headache for local borough councils . |
| 16 | ‘ Unionist ’ has long been a misnomer for both parties of that name in the Province , which are Protestant first and Unionist second . |
| 17 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 18 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 19 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 20 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 21 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 22 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 23 | I have not been a thief for seventeen years , chance would be a thing . |
| 24 | Mr Tutton blamed it on a type of narrow laser beam used in early operations and said it had not been a problem for the British patients . |
| 25 | By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . |
| 26 | Elder abuse has not been a priority for research or for developing practice guidance for social workers and other staff who have direct contact with older people . |
| 27 | He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star . |
| 28 | The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent . |
| 29 | There had not been a crisis for about six months , though , so it was clearly time for one . |
| 30 | In consequence there has not been an opportunity for profitable market entry by efficient private companies . |