Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 2 | Excessive schedule length has been one reason for the use of the faceted approach in updating major schemes . |
| 3 | Lack of public awareness has been one reason for the spread of the killer disease . |
| 4 | THE STRIKE at Britain 's waterworks has been good news for a sheltered workshop in Watford . |
| 5 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 6 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 7 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 8 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 9 | Rob Wilson 's tackle shop in Brora has been welcoming anglers for more than fifty years . |
| 10 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 11 | joined the Group with the acquisition of of Trowbridge in May 1978 and has been regional buyer for the north west region since March 1985 . |
| 12 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 13 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 14 | In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose . |
| 15 | In addition , there has been strong support for the proposal to reduce the scope for intimidation and fraud by requiring strike ballots to be conducted by post and to be subject to independent scrutiny . |
| 16 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 17 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 18 | There has been limited provision for gifted children in the past . |
| 19 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 20 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 21 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 22 | One of the more important consequences of this action — a consequence , incidentally , that we are still feeling the effects of — has been that demand for UK goods has been reduced not only in the UK but also in the other major industrialised oil importing nations . |
| 23 | There has been less enthusiasm for options in the Far East where the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) introduced options on its CME-linked contracts in 1987 . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , there has been national success for the school . |
| 25 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 26 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 27 | The advent of the Reagan administration , and its alliance with the powerful pro-Israeli lobby has been bad news for the UN agencies . |
| 28 | For example , Hans Dietrich Genscher has been Foreign Minister for the last 18 years . |
| 29 | More recently there has been some support for an approach which interprets the contract as a whole but it is by no means unanimous . |
| 30 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |