Example sentences of "has [been] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a depressing and dispiriting experience , exactly as life itself has been for the young unemployed , day in and day out . |
| 2 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 3 | Another important use of statistical grammatical information has been for the grammatical tagging of natural language corpora . |
| 4 | It is worth restating how radical a leader Mrs Thatcher has been for the Conservative party . |
| 5 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 6 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 7 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 8 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 9 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 10 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |