Example sentences of "been for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel .
2 Yeah I ai n't been for blooming ages .
3 Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy .
4 This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research .
5 The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself .
6 Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal .
7 Had the Pages ' passion been for Lalique glass , the family might have felt constrained to creep about gingerly on tiptoe .
8 The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars .
9 Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields .
10 The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression .
11 She ai n't been for long while has she ?
12 Some of the most effective recruitment campaigns I have worked with have been for limited commitment .
13 Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce .
14 the , the chain sir the chain of logic and of course had it not been with one inter interposing there , had it not been for void restrictions , it would not have written , that 's when they were written , they were written only because of the restrictions that 's what enabled them to be written
15 Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead .
16 There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy .
17 They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour .
18 Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream .
19 Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season .
20 The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated .
21 However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch .
22 Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result .
23 ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses .
24 And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view .
25 Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons .
26 St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport .
27 While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions .
28 Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie .
29 Had it not been for seasonal visitors , the list of locally popular dishes would have been depressingly brief ; burned steaks , fried fish , and barbecued chicken .
30 Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs .
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