Example sentences of "been so [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is why you have been so successful for us abroad . |
| 2 | Atkinson said : ‘ It 's a blow to lose someone like Shaun , who has been so impressive for us . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Care has not been so tender for the eiderdown duck , which has perished in large numbers due to oil slicks in its Iceland habitat , as European demand for its fluffy down , mainly used in bedding , increases . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In any case , it would n't have been so easy for me to start again at something else . |
| 7 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 8 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think I 'll stick with Lulu — I 'm not superstitious but it 's been so good for me up until now that I 'm not going to throw it away . |
| 11 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry things have been so tough for you . ’ |
| 13 | For all that England are the only European nation not to concede a goal in the qualifying tournament , it is no exaggeration to suggest they have never been so ill-equipped for the persistent rigours of a World Cup . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I wish he would walk , he 's been so heavy for me to carry . |
| 16 | The reason she 'd been so reluctant for Alexander Vass to leave had had nothing to do with the man himself . |
| 17 | This view of kinship as an opposite to capitalist relations of production explains the vivid interest with which Marx and Engels examined the work of such anthropologists as Bachofen , McLennan , and Maine , who were all concerned with this topic ; but above all it explains once again why Morgan should have been so important for them , since he above all was the expert on kinship . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Never has it been so important for museums to prove themselves popular . |
| 20 | And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle . |
| 21 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 22 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 23 | This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women . |
| 24 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
| 25 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 26 | No harm in that : pedestrian documentation is what there is a call for — Pound himself , and his admirers emulating him , have been so sprightly for so long that they have persuaded people they , and he , can not be in earnest . |
| 27 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 28 | I 've been so thirsty for the last hour , I could n't be bothered to go and find a drink . |
| 29 | I 've been so afraid for so long that you 'd never care for me … |