Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 2 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 3 | One of the more important consequences of this action — a consequence , incidentally , that we are still feeling the effects of — has been that demand for UK goods has been reduced not only in the UK but also in the other major industrialised oil importing nations . |
| 4 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 5 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 6 | If this had been a reflection of basic principles of justice there could have been little cause for complaint , but in fact an examination of the position shows clearly that this was not the case . |
| 7 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 8 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 9 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 10 | There 's been universal praise for Gloucestershire 's Emily Bond who 's reached tomorrow 's finals after an aggressive 6-3 6-1 win over Spaniard Eva Borras . |
| 11 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 12 | Horses have been favourite subjects for artists from time immemorial-how lovingly is the horse depicted in Rembrandt 's The Polish Rider-but the artist who paid equal attention to dancers and horses was Degas ; he understood the special elegance of the way in which they both moved . |
| 13 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 14 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 15 | The crisis has been created by the Government and it provides the context in which there have been tremendous implications for training . |
| 16 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 17 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 18 | It had been three years for Ace . |
| 19 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 20 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 21 | The warm spell has also been good news for workers at the factory after a difficult year when 67 people were made redundant when their parent company , Clarke Foods , collapsed last year . |
| 22 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 23 | GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor , which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels , where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations . |
| 24 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 25 | Literary giants have often been prime subjects for portraiture and George Bernard Shaw was no exception . |
| 26 | Literary giants have often been prime subjects for portraiture and George Bernard Shaw was no exception . |
| 27 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 28 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 29 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 30 | There has been less enthusiasm for options in the Far East where the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) introduced options on its CME-linked contracts in 1987 . |