Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Marxists , petty bourgeois producers seem destined to be replaced by monopoly capital , while the advantages rendered by economies of scale have been sufficiently impressive for neo-classical economists to stress the unreality of atomistic competition . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having led the world into polyester fibre and been highly profitable for many years , we lost the lead position due to a combination of circumstances . |
| 4 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 11 | Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel . |
| 12 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 13 | The Commission pointed out that these percentages would have been even higher for certain types of plane . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's been particularly bleak for many workers . |
| 17 | All had been continuously resident for two months , had shown persistent disability , and were thought not to be able to look after themselves . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition . |
| 20 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is symptomatic that the directors of insolvent companies ignore demands for payment , and frequently judgments are obtained where the proceedings have not been quite wrong for such judgment creditors to obtain any preferential treatment . |
| 23 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 24 | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons . |
| 25 | There 's been very little for United fans to cheer about this season . |
| 26 | ‘ When I went to see him , he had been very ill for three years . |
| 27 | It would have been too much for poor Bridget , looking after them , when she had so much to do . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 30 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |