Example sentences of "always been a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 9 | The relative success of right-wing organisations , compared with left-wing ones , in recruiting among lower-class youth culture has always been a problem for left idealism . |
| 10 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 11 | Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes — the short and the tall , the squat and the big . |
| 12 | For one reason or another the inner city has always been a target for public regulation and control . |
| 13 | But this has always been a job for the sociable . ’ |
| 14 | Finance has always been a headache for a group whose adherents have often come from amongst the poorest strata of society . |
| 15 | Because class size has always been a cause for complaint in primary schools , some heads used their staffing enhancement to create smaller classes . |
| 16 | The question of capital punishment had always been a matter for individual conscience on a free vote in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Education had always been a matter for state and local government in the USA and now Kennedy was proposing to give over $2 billion to aid schools , plus over $3 billion to higher education . |
| 18 | Matisse has always been an artist for discerning buyers and was never speculated in like Picasso and Renoir |