Example sentences of "have been [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 2 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 3 | His statement continued : ‘ Caldaire appreciates that monetary problems and not bloody-mindedness are the cause of the problem , but financial hardship never has been justification for non-payment of debt . |
| 4 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 5 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 6 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 7 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 8 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 9 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |
| 10 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 11 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 12 | There might , indeed , have been scope for compromise on some of these issues . |
| 13 | On a sale of a private company , or if there have been reorganisations for taxation purposes , it is common for the seller to require the contract to be conditional on a clearance under s.703 ( cancellation of tax advantage ) and any other applicable tax provisions . |
| 14 | There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified . |
| 15 | But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | There have been stations for service establishments , such as RAF Cranwell and Cosford Aerodrome . |
| 17 | There have been gains for nature conservation in that the storms have prompted a fundamental questioning of the received view . |