Example sentences of "[verb] been for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields .
2 The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself .
3 The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression .
4 This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research .
5 The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated .
6 IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday .
7 ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses .
8 What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost .
9 Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal .
10 Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead .
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 Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed .
13 Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town .
14 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 .
15 Some of the most effective recruitment campaigns I have worked with have been for limited commitment .
16 The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars .
17 Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons .
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