Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 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 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 4 | The heaviest betting this year has been for Shellac , a six-length winner from Sudden Victory at Ayr last time out , but the deciding factor is that Dettori originally chose to ride SPLENDID CAREER ( nap 3.35 ) , who may have been unlucky when beaten at Newbury by yesterday 's Goodwood winner Monastery . |
| 5 | Since then , however , standard procedure has been for patrols to study photographs , names and addresses of suspects before leaving security force bases . |
| 6 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 7 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 8 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 9 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 10 | His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before . |
| 11 | But the broad trend has been for this gap between the experience of rich and poor worlds to narrow ( see the graph on Page 16 ) . |
| 12 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 13 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 14 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 15 | That first contract had been for America , and then came Russia , France , Italy , Germany , South America , the list is endless . |
| 16 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 17 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 18 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 19 | It does not protect the farmers since so many are now in difficulties and the long-term trend has been for many to leave agriculture altogether . |
| 20 | The Bolton area health authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers , and its chief executive , Richard Sutherland , said last night : ‘ Our first concern has been for the patients involved . |
| 21 | It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long , which is totally unacceptable . |
| 22 | The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry . |
| 23 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 24 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 25 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 26 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 27 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 28 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects . |
| 30 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |