Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 2 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 3 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 6 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 7 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 10 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 11 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 12 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The increasingly related and intertwined fields of education and training have for long been a battlefield for learning technologies . |
| 15 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 16 | Prostitution , drunkenness , vagrancy and other ‘ unrespectable ’ manifestations of urban popular culture had long been a headache for local borough councils . |
| 17 | ‘ Unionist ’ has long been a misnomer for both parties of that name in the Province , which are Protestant first and Unionist second . |
| 18 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially . |
| 23 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 24 | Twenty-three years in the business has all been the build-up for this , as I take on my most challenging role ever — bloody prompter ! ’ |
| 25 | But since then there had no longer been a reason for them to meet . |
| 26 | In America landfill standards have generally been a matter for individual states . |
| 27 | The result has already been a bonanza for the founders of small production firms . |
| 28 | Until now his brother Phil has just been a shoulder for his wife to cry on . |
| 29 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 30 | Oldham boss Joe Royle said : ‘ Scoring goals has not normally been a problem for us but it is at the moment . ’ |