Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial . |
| 2 | From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition . |
| 3 | That there had been no time to prepare for a gradual hand-over of power , to make plans for social , political , economic and military integration , only made things worse . |
| 4 | But in terms of Defence and Overseas policy there had been a price to pay for these successes . |
| 5 | The point to bear in mind is that all that glisters is not gold , and there has been a price to pay for all the splendour . |