Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 2 | Spracklen , who is 52 and lives in Marlow , has been largely responsible for their revival , believing them as valid today as they were 100 years ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 5 | ‘ Would it not have been more usual for your daughter to have stayed with her mother ? ’ |
| 6 | Many of the linguistic elements are borrowed from Tolkien and — which must have been more exasperating for their originator — changed and got ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 7 | In some places , women have been directly responsible for its introduction , whilst in others feminist ideas have influenced the law-makers . |
| 8 | Freud cites one young man in relation to his father and another in relation to his twin , as well as the main case , a young woman in relation to her mother : ‘ It , then , the girl became homosexual and left men to her mother ( in other words ‘ retired in favour of' ’ her mother ) , she would hitherto remove something which had hitherto been partly responsible for her mother 's dislike' ( ix . |
| 9 | This three-CD retrospective of his solo output is a timely reminder that his career has been as interesting for its disasters as its triumphs . |
| 10 | ‘ He has been really good for her soul , ’ says one of her colleagues . |
| 11 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 12 | She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness . |
| 13 | So the arrival and use of relational databases has been absolutely perfect for our approach to development of accounting systems . |
| 14 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 15 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 16 | The teachers treat me as an adult , but I 've always been very mature for my age . |
| 17 | I am hungry having been too upset for my morning egg because of a difficulty with the soldiers which Pa refused to do anything about , then heartlessly reproduced the very same egg for my lunch . |
| 18 | It was a unique triumph in the annals of attempted colonisation in the Americas : he had been extraordinarily well-prepared for their attack . |
| 19 | They would not have been refreshingly down-to-earth for her sake . |