Example sentences of "it has [been] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 It has been particularly difficult for him because the Government have two of their placemen on the council , but he has managed to keep fighting though the council has this deadweight of government lackeys . ’
2 Erin talks about the joy the mindless child brings her — well , so it may , but her love for it has been most destructive for others .
3 It has been so rewarding for me to read about the happiness and freedom from the prison of obesity that is now enjoyed by so many .
4 In practice , it has been extremely rare for the Lords to use even such powers as remain to it to reject Commons Bills .
5 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 ?
6 It has been more difficult for it to investigate the non-physical nature of prehistoric society .
7 In recent years , it has been more common for songwriting members to allow the band 's non-songwriters to share in a percentage of their songwriting royalties. otherwise , the non-songwriting members of the band would be considerably poorer than the others .
8 It has been very sad for me , ’ she says .
9 Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future .
10 On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you .
11 Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming .
12 In the case of an inflected language or one with many and various verb-forms , it has been almost impossible for teachers to adapt to the new methods .
13 But in the advanced technologies , up to our own time , it has been almost impossible for working companies to have direct access to their relevant means of production , and a third form of the division of labour then appears , and in capitalist conditions becomes stable and regular .
14 It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context .
15 A formal concept since 1923 , millions of American dollars have been spent on it and it has been virtually complete for years .
16 Given our large and wide-ranging stock of Chinese and Japanese works of art , it has been relatively easy for us to find items with American provenances , but difficult to find ones with provenances of significance .
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