Example sentences of "[noun] has been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 2 | So the arrival and use of relational databases has been absolutely perfect for our approach to development of accounting systems . |
| 3 | One plant houses the company 's IBM mainframe computer — one of the biggest in the state — and a CAD ( computer-aided design ) department has been fully operational for the last year . |
| 4 | One plant houses the company 's IBM mainframe computer — one of the biggest in the state — and a CAD ( computer-aided design ) department has been fully operational for the last year . |
| 5 | The food industry has been rather quiet for a couple of years but we have recently finished a Jaffa cake plant for McVities/United Biscuits in Manchester and a sugar refining job for Tate & Lyle . |
| 6 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since then , the Assistant Director in Scotland has been administratively responsible for staff in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | I think that attitude has been very bad for the industry as a whole . |
| 10 | Where the private sector has been legally liable for the costs of doing so , liability has been much more limited than in America . |
| 11 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 12 | Brian Jackson has been particularly responsible for highlighting the problem of the child minder , especially the ‘ illegal ’ ( unregistered ) child minder . |
| 13 | ‘ I am delighted to record that the Group 's recovery has been sufficiently strong for us to undertake two acquisitions during the year , Sekers and Mercia Carpets ’ . |
| 14 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
| 15 | ‘ Flashman 's behaviour has been too pathetic for words . ’ |
| 16 | Even the very limited amount of competition and market liberalisation proposed in the Electricity and Gas Directives has been too much for the German ( highly inefficient ) coal-mining interests to swallow . |
| 17 | The study of social policy has been particularly conspicuous for the specific political or value commitments of those who write about it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This three-CD retrospective of his solo output is a timely reminder that his career has been as interesting for its disasters as its triumphs . |
| 20 | Our Jay has been remarkably un-rampant for years ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The blood transfusion has been quite effective for the anaemia , but she 's going to need more . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Although Laclotte has been largely responsible for the choice of works , he emphasises that this is a collaborative exhibition , with different parts of the catalogue by different specialists , not always in perfect agreement with one another : ‘ There is no absolute truth in matters of attribution , just opinion ’ , he says . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In this respect the emergence of the Rugby World Cup has been extremely beneficial for out brand . |
| 26 | ‘ Euro Disney has been very successful for us and now we are getting some interest from other potential clients on the Continent , ’ says Peter Fane , one of the four brothers who own Waterers . |
| 27 | The rate of unemployment in Glasgow has been very high for a long time , and I accept that that is unfortunate . |
| 28 | The year has been particularly difficult for the Wedgwood Group with sales down on the previous year at IR£197.3 million ( 1991 : IR£219.1 million ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Whilst the overall sums have been low , and there has also been criticism that the time period for these grants has been too short for the more innovative projects , some success in the movement of mentally handicapped and ill people into the community has been achieved . |