Example sentences of "'s be [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different .
2 Yes , it 's been available for months now — but I 've been reliably informed that the 3.5-inch drive is going to be re -launched , hopefully with a sizeable catalogue of software titles to accompany it .
3 Megan 's been married for 18 years and still loves her husband , but resents his meanness .
4 And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen .
5 Mind you , it 's been good for business , so I suppose I should n't complain . ’
6 It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective .
7 ’ It 's been good for me and if I can show others how to enjoy it , then that 's what will continue to make American Football grow . ’
8 It 's been dark for ages .
9 A lump sum , we wo n't ask for it back , and maybe it 's been useful for them to adapt their lives in the meantime .
10 It 's been useful for their maintenance .
11 Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes .
12 It 's been awful for me and my mother , too .
13 It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years .
14 Well it 's been dry for another day .
15 She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all .
16 But it 's been unused for more than two years and is now derelict .
17 " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . "
18 ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’
19 ‘ Luke , it 's been intolerable for weeks .
20 ‘ It 's been temporary for six months now .
21 But generally it 's been unnecessary for us to have much contact .
22 And the second time round it 's been perfect for him because he bought from Karen 's house the Hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his .
23 It 's been clear for years ( ever since the Hayward exhibitions The Other Story : AfroAsian Artists in Postwar Britain and Art in Latin America met with such dismally insular reponses from most of the critics ) that massive justification is needed for any exhibition that seems ‘ foreign ’ .
24 But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications .
25 SHe 's been ready for this so-called ‘ work ’ since about the fourth day .
26 Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year .
27 And finally , a family-run clothes shop that 's been open for more than a hundred years is closing down because there 's no one left to look after it .
28 ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’
29 ‘ He 's been free for three days now , and people are frightened .
30 Albert said , ‘ She 's been ill for ages .
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