Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |
| 2 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |
| 3 | Outside the house , the Washington coat of arms , said to have been the inspiration for the American flag , can be seen above the main porch . |
| 4 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 5 | In BR especially , it has been the vehicle for the comprehensive internal regulation of railway affairs and for the resolution of both collective and individual conflicts . |
| 6 | ‘ Dod ’ , he speculated , could have been the name for the original surveyors , ‘ dodging ’ about . |
| 7 | Indeed , Goldsmith argues that on finance , ‘ the Scottish Office has been the pioneer for the Imperial core , seeking and using greater controls over local government ’ than was the case in England ( 1986 , p. 168 ) . |
| 8 | At one of the effects of that delay I suspect has been the need for the supplementary estimate which is measured , er mentioned in part B. |
| 9 | Taligent was conceived as a stand-alone developer of technology : Hewlett-Packard has worked closely with IBM and Sun on objects and the deal for IBM to convert its Distributed Systems Object Model — DSOM — for Hewlett-Packard 's Precision Architecture RISC architecture is thought to have been the impetus for the Common Open Software Environment initiative . |
| 10 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 11 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 12 | Over the years , a few huge , widely reported pay-offs have given rise to the impression among more gullible members of the newspaper-reading public that six-figure golden handshakes are the norm for the departing business executive . |
| 13 | They are the basis for the audible component of belching through oesophagopharyngeal passage of gas and occur independently of swallowing , having a somewhat longer time course than the UOS relaxation induced by swallowing . |
| 14 | None of the constitutional reasons which are the basis for the artificial Wednesbury meaning are relevant . |
| 15 | This leads to the Maxwell-Bloch equations , which are the basis for the subsequent treatment : where the Rabi frequency has been written explicitly in polar form , G is a coupling constant and <> allows for a velocity average over the Maxwellian distribution of longitudinal velocities of the atoms . |
| 16 | A number of Japanese vendors have developed and are introducing products for Japanese localisation , based on the XIM X Input Method and XIMP X Input Method Protocol , which are the basis for the standardised Japanese input method defined by Unix International . |
| 17 | Mr Manwaring would have been no match for the fit 25-year-old van driver , who boxed and played badminton , said prosecution . |
| 18 | There would have been no need for the clumsy intervention of verbal explanations . |
| 19 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 20 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 21 | Grandad had been a gardener for the local Big House . |
| 22 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 23 | Next , the implication that full employment could be achieved by budget deficits encouraged the separation of decisions to spend from decisions to tax , and there has been a tendency for the former to grow faster than the latter . |
| 24 | Because of the difficulties in communication , there has been a tendency for the intellectual abilities of people suffering from cerebral palsy to be underestimated , but this is now generally not the case . |
| 25 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 26 | And w and been a member for the whole time . |
| 27 | The visit of the Morris Men was arranged with the help of BNFL safety auditor David Pratt , of Risley , who has been a member for the past two years . |
| 28 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 29 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 30 | There has been a trend for the clinical diagnosis of pyloric stenosis to be preceded by an imaging study : during 1974–7 only 25 ( 12% ) infants were imaged before a mass was palpated compared with 57 ( 31% ) during 1988–91 . |