Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ . |
| 2 | In the end she 'd been too good for her lowly position . |
| 3 | The purchase of a software package to achieve this was not cost justifiable and the facilities offered were too sophisticated for our needs . |
| 4 | There is a certain satisfaction to be gained from achieving something which we thought was probably impossible for us . |
| 5 | He told me that the way I felt was quite normal for someone in my situation ’ |
| 6 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 7 | Sad that his country had fallen from the top of the European industrial league , to joint eighth out of nine , and bitter toward the foolish leaders who had been largely responsible for its decline . |
| 8 | David Meldrum , general manager , financial services , said the last couple of years had been very difficult for everyone in the industry . |
| 9 | It had been very different for her but he could n't be held responsible for her folly . |
| 10 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 11 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 12 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 13 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 14 | She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness . |
| 15 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 16 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 17 | It had been too accessible for its own long-term good in 1989 . |
| 18 | An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her . |
| 19 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |
| 20 | The excitement of Cynthia 's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse . |
| 21 | The journey had been too much for her , he thought apprehensively , but when she spoke it was in a cheerful raised voice . |
| 22 | He probably expected to find that the problem had been too much for her . |
| 23 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 24 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 25 | The pious hush in there had been too much for them . |
| 26 | He had been abroad , and things had been too much for his younger brother , he having been deserted by his partners . |
| 27 | The medium had been too strong for them , they had taken to it like aborigines to the bottle . |
| 28 | Tamar 's description , to him and Elizabeth , had been too vivid for him ever to confuse it . |
| 29 | It was a unique triumph in the annals of attempted colonisation in the Americas : he had been extraordinarily well-prepared for their attack . |
| 30 | And it was just a pity that the material she was given or told us to read , she said was too advanced for us . |