Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this has been particularly influential for many forms of Western Marxism , it also represents a deviation from Marx 's original claim that history is the effect of material conditions rather than of human consciousness . |
| 2 | In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy . |
| 3 | If , as seems likely , the Czechoslovak economy has been largely stagnant for 15 years then it is hard to see how domestic resources could be enough . |
| 4 | Internal migration within Britain has been largely responsible for these trends , with the level of net immigration to the South rising from 24 000 a year in 1971/73 to 45–50 000 a year by the end of the 1970s and rising steadily since 1981 to reach 69 000 in 1985/6 ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 5 | The pub has been largely unchanged for 100 years but owners Bass took advantage of development planned in the next door antiques market to announce a drastic redevelopment . |
| 6 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
| 7 | Since those early days , the movement towards this goal has been very slow for economic and political reasons . |
| 8 | Wife Marguerita said : ‘ This has been very upsetting for both of us . |
| 9 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , in certain cases , it has been extremely difficult for some smaller pubs to be able to pay the amount of money that some of the brewers have been asking them to pay ? |
| 11 | On occasions , the personal information revealed has been highly embarrassing for one of the circle , according to reports of those counselled . |
| 12 | The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history . |
| 13 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 14 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 15 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 16 | Two crews that would have been especially grateful for this kind of compensation were Dennis Arlett and Patricial Lagesse whose accumulated woes would not let them pass Gao while , even more heart-rending was the final submission of the chassis previously held together by Jean-Christophe Savzey and Claire de Valbray — an agonizing 50km from the finish . |
| 17 | However , testing memory for a specific item like a road sign does not tell the researcher about overall levels of memory which may have been quite good for other details . |
| 18 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 19 | If SI units had been used results would have had to have been reported by height , age , and sex separately and the sample size would have been too small for useful analysis . |
| 20 | Life must have been very hard for many of these poor women . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 23 | But it seems to have been equally rare for young couples in the poorer classes to help their ageing parents by providing them with houseroom . |
| 24 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 25 | Yet in racing , in export credit guarantees and elsewhere , the Chancellor was reacting late in the day to complaints that had been clearly audible for some considerable time . |
| 26 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 27 | All had been continuously resident for two months , had shown persistent disability , and were thought not to be able to look after themselves . |
| 28 | Judges said the standard of entries had been exceptionally high for such an event , with many of the styles created being ‘ very innovative ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ When I went to see him , he had been very ill for three years . |
| 30 | The Scots had been entirely unprepared for this , thus far into their own country , and were engaged in herding the great herd of Gilsland cattle across the Dornock Water 's estuary , some one side of the river , some the other . |