Example sentences of "[verb] been the [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 2 | Ever since this time , Caernarfon Castle has been the venue for many royal tours of Wales . |
| 3 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 4 | The gallery at the regional Architecture Centre has been the focus for much of the region 's activity with an attractive and well supported series of exhibitions . |
| 5 | It has been the starting-point for many a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure — ‘ London Bridge Station , cabby , and do n't spare the horses ’ . |
| 6 | This was clearly a campaign base concerned with both east-west and north-south operations , but it does not seem to have been the focus for any civilian development . |
| 7 | The second amount bore a twofold significance , since a statute of the previous century stipulated a minimum of £20 per annum for justices of the peace , while two of the sumptuary acts evidently assumed this to have been the minimum for any gentleman by defining a class ‘ under the degree of gentlemen ’ , including university graduates , having £10 a year in lands or £100 in goods — a clear reference , it would seem , to merchants . |
| 8 | Domestic life with his father had been the training-school for this distinctively Lewisian vision . |
| 9 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |