Example sentences of "[been] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 2 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 3 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 4 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 5 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 7 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 8 | Yet his criticism has not , by and large , been for the tabloid newspapers whose standards fell to new lows during the 1980s ; instead , he has reserved his bile for investigative journalists , particularly if they worked for television , and for those newspaper reporters who decided to boycott his lobby briefings . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 10 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 11 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 12 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 13 | This is a good example of a local commemoration which almost slipped through the net , had it not been for the sleuthing abilities of north east enthusiast David Thompson . |
| 14 | There then followed a decline , and the old arts would have been lost , had it not been for the Buddhist monks who kept the arts alive in their mountain refuges . |