Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 12 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Radio personality Michael Parkinson said : ‘ It 's been general knowledge for ages . |
| 17 | During the same period , there has not been one prosecution for corruption , although it is no secret that the economy is dominated by powerful politicians with access to cheap state funds , import licences and influence . |
| 18 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 19 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 20 | With Chantal there had never been any need for pretence . |
| 21 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 22 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 23 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 24 | There has been big demand for tickets , despite price increases , and the club anticipate a sell-out in the North and South stands and terraces . |
| 25 | A married lady who is a leader in social purity movements and an enthusiast for sexual chastity , ( who ) discovered through reading some pamphlets against solitary vice , that she had herself been practising masturbation for years without knowing it . |
| 26 | Brian Hallin , who had formerly worked for Island and been financial controller for IRS Records , was appointed as their manager . |
| 27 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 28 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 29 | This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure . |