Example sentences of "[adv] been a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 2 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 5 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 6 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 9 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 10 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 11 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The increasingly related and intertwined fields of education and training have for long been a battlefield for learning technologies . |
| 14 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 15 | Prostitution , drunkenness , vagrancy and other ‘ unrespectable ’ manifestations of urban popular culture had long been a headache for local borough councils . |
| 16 | ‘ Unionist ’ has long been a misnomer for both parties of that name in the Province , which are Protestant first and Unionist second . |
| 17 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But since then there had no longer been a reason for them to meet . |
| 22 | In America landfill standards have generally been a matter for individual states . |
| 23 | The result has already been a bonanza for the founders of small production firms . |
| 24 | Until now his brother Phil has just been a shoulder for his wife to cry on . |
| 25 | Oldham boss Joe Royle said : ‘ Scoring goals has not normally been a problem for us but it is at the moment . ’ |
| 26 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 27 | St Mary 's had always been a home for Eve ; the fear was that she might find the sister house in Dublin more like an institution , and worse still she might find her own role-there not that of an honoured daughter , but more that of a maid . |
| 28 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 29 | In the 18th Century Daventry was an important town on the Holyhead coaching road and , lying on four main roads , it has always been a centre for travellers . |
| 30 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |