Example sentences of "[verb] been for [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 7 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 8 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
| 9 | Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons . |