Example sentences of "been a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 2 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 3 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 4 | The writing has been a hobby for Vanessa for as long as she can remember but she has recently started trying to turn it to profit . |
| 5 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 6 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It may have been a stopping-place for drovers — but he could still do Dr Johnson the honour of making lemonade from fresh lemons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones . |
| 11 | In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited . |
| 12 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 13 | There is some evidence that committee members feel themselves less fettered by party ties in committee than on the floor of the House although there has been a tendency for party loyalty to reassert itself if the report is debated . |
| 14 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 15 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 16 | In fact , it has been allowed to become progressively more ruinous , has been a shelter for cattle , and has been ignored in all of the county 's publicity material . |
| 17 | The scheme has been a success for fund-holders ' own patients , but detrimental to the rest . |
| 18 | The same passage , despite the narrow constriction of the valley at Djerdap , as the Danube forces its way between the Transylvanian Alps to the north and the Stara Planina to the south , may also have been a route for invaders into the Roman province of Pannonia , although the Iron Gate Pass , some 130 km ( 80 miles ) further north , afforded a better route for the Goths who descended on Pannonia from Transylvania in the middle of the fourth century AD . |
| 19 | My own country has been a battleground for centuries . |
| 20 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 21 | It was from an old pal of mine , an MP who had earned a splendid reputation as a devoted knowledgeable constituency member , not least because he had also been a councillor for years . |
| 22 | Instead , the information disseminated is designed to make too many people comfortable with the idea that these horrifying centuries of murder and pillage have been a fight for justice and democracy . |
| 23 | Said her husband had been a member for years . ’ |
| 24 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 25 | In the photograph on the facing page I have designed an S-shape for Sheen , but it could just as easily have been a J for Joanna , or any of the other letters of the alphabet . |
| 26 | Nissan 's Zama factory , outside Tokyo , which is to be shut down , had been a showcase for automation in the 1980s . |
| 27 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 28 | Lack of academic training does not appear to have been a handicap for Roddick . |
| 29 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 30 | Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools . |