Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 2 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 3 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 4 | I 've been grateful for Jessie having my key because er I 've locked myself out one or two |
| 5 | The Group says , production , home sales and exports have all been outstanding for Austin Rover and Landrover vehicles . |
| 6 | ‘ We offer the literature of reassurance ’ states the press office for Mills and Boon : a reassurance that has been marketed with resounding success , a success that would not have been possible for Mills and Boon or for Harlequin without the intervention and resources of the Torstar Corporation . |
| 7 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 8 | Had he been willing for Otto to do what he did ? |
| 9 | The Cabinet system has been different for Heath , Wilson and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 10 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 11 | Life has n't been easy for Patsy McGowan 's troops of late . |
| 12 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 13 | Things have n't been easy for Nora since your father died . ’ |
| 14 | The owner Janet Stokes says , ‘ Of course , it has n't always been easy for Karen . |
| 15 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 16 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 17 | It would have been simple for Rachel . ’ |
| 18 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 19 | It would have been impossible for Liza not to realise her growing power over the opposite sex , nor fail to notice the kind of dumb adoration in which Corporal Carrow held her . |
| 20 | This had been ideal for Ewan 's purposes . |
| 21 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 22 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 23 | Mark himself states that it would have been remarkable for Jesus to have found fruit on the tree for it was not even the proper season for fruit . |
| 24 | It has been hard for Souness to stamp his authority in a similar way since he took over when Dalglishfatigued by the demands of the Anfield job departed 22 months ago . |
| 25 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
| 26 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 27 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
| 28 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 29 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 30 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |