Example sentences of "been [adj] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally . |
| 2 | Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce . |
| 3 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 4 | It can not have been easy for his wife to have Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu as in-laws . ) |
| 5 | Sara had been glad for her great-aunt , daughter of a famous Edwardian horse-breeder , and in her day a breeder herself , to have this nostalgic reminder of the past . |
| 6 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 7 | Roirbak thought , Times have been hard for you girl , have n't they ? |
| 8 | And have full oft been Sun-burnt for thy Sake ; |
| 9 | It had , he thought ruefully , been good for his self-conceit to find that her devotion did n't , after all , extend to leaving London where , surprisingly , she had been discovered to have a life of her own , to join him in the fens . |
| 10 | Saint or Sinner , poet Fiona Pitt-Kethley has always been famous for her ability to startle . |
| 11 | But Great-Aunt Alicia had always been famous for her absurdities . |
| 12 | A little further north is the small village of Conisholme which for many years has been famous for its Appleby 's Ice Cream establishment . |
| 13 | Ambonnay has long been famous for its production of still red wines . |
| 14 | Karajan has always been famous for his willingness to breathe with players — wind players in particular — something that many conductors neglect to do . |
| 15 | It must have been terrible for her gran , wanting to explain about the Italian connection , and being unable to . |
| 16 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 17 | It 's been useful for their maintenance . |
| 18 | By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience . |
| 19 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | I think he may have been responsible for her unhappiness . |
| 21 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |
| 22 | Matisse had been responsible for its decoration . |
| 23 | And I 've always been mature for my age . ’ |
| 24 | Ask Clint whether he feels it has been tough for his kids having a superstar dad and he looks cagey : ‘ Everyone worries about their kids . |
| 25 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 26 | Viking justice had n't been renowned for its leniency , she recollected . |
| 27 | None of your so-called friends look as if they have exactly been renowned for their brains , do they ? ’ |
| 28 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 29 | To often we have heard of buildings that have been put under capital expenditure and then the revenue has not been available for their use . |
| 30 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |