Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for [adj] " 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 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 ?
4 The Scots had been entirely unprepared for this , thus far into their own country , and were engaged in herding the great herd of Gilsland cattle across the Dornock Water 's estuary , some one side of the river , some the other .
5 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 .
6 On occasions , the personal information revealed has been highly embarrassing for one of the circle , according to reports of those counselled .
7 With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs .
8 The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons .
12 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 .
13 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 ) .
14 ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? )
15 Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day .
16 Judges said the standard of entries had been exceptionally high for such an event , with many of the styles created being ‘ very innovative ’ .
17 I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life .
18 Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel .
19 Yet in racing , in export credit guarantees and elsewhere , the Chancellor was reacting late in the day to complaints that had been clearly audible for some considerable time .
20 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 .
21 Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ .
22 I 've I 've been really housebound for five
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It 's been particularly bleak for many workers .
26 In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy .
27 All had been continuously resident for two months , had shown persistent disability , and were thought not to be able to look after themselves .
28 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 .
29 An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition .
30 A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months .
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