Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 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 | Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas . |
| 4 | Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas . |
| 5 | Our Jay has been remarkably un-rampant for years ! ’ |
| 6 | Attempts to create producer cartels for copper , aluminium and other commodities have , however , been less successful for lack of diplomatic solidarity . |
| 7 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 8 | Since then , the Assistant Director in Scotland has been administratively responsible for staff in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Christ was not a worldly ruler , and some of the virtues which he preached , like meekness , would have been extremely dangerous for rulers to imitate . |
| 10 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 11 | In Troeltsch , the focusing of attention on ‘ religion ’ which had been so central for Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology is thus intensified to the point where its separation off from Christian theology becomes inevitable . |
| 12 | Life has n't always been so dull for Elaine : she has managed , in the past , to survive the same upheavals as many able-bodied people . |
| 13 | The reason she 'd been so reluctant for Alexander Vass to leave had had nothing to do with the man himself . |
| 14 | Never has it been so important for museums to prove themselves popular . |
| 15 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 16 | This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women . |
| 17 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 18 | In recent decades , moreover , the difficulties in these matters have been especially acute for Republican presidents for the simple reason that few senior civil servants are Republicans . |
| 19 | Although Park had been largely responsible for South Korea 's successful drive to establish diplomatic links with the countries of eastern Europe , Kim had in March visited Moscow and appeared intent on becoming increasingly involved in the process . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the pattern appears to have been broadly similar for finance , transport , oil refining and distribution . |
| 21 | Most of these causes of poverty had , however , been broadly constant for generations , although the growth of towns and of industry and of urban service occupations had changed the conditions in which they were experienced . |
| 22 | Would it have been more honourable for Prothero to let Pound go on submitting , when there was no hope of his being accepted ? |
| 23 | There has probably never been more choice for places in which you can invest than now . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Marquis may have had a diggicult year but the last few months though have been more difficult for Becky Blandford . |
| 26 | Such a match , compared to that with the dauphin , would have been distinctly disparaging for Mary . |
| 27 | The Allies ( certainly the British ) would have been perfectly happy for de Gaulle to claim a generalized legitimacy on the grounds that he represented the true interests of France . |
| 28 | Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity . |
| 29 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 30 | And it 's been as bad for staff as inmates . |