Example sentences of "[pron] has been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |
| 2 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 3 | Sun could move the manufacture of these parts from Texas Instruments , which began it quite successfully , to Fujitsu Ltd , which has been very anxious for the business . |
| 4 | Sun could move the manufacture of these parts from TI , which began it quite successfully , to Fujitsu , which has been very anxious for the business . |
| 5 | We run a lower sixth form residential summer school for kids , which has been very popular for the past five years . |
| 6 | And then there is underneath the sea bed , which has been very important for the United Kingdom because of the great oil and gas resources which we found and if you had had er more limited erm concepts of the |
| 7 | The last section of the book is devoted to a description of what has been achieved with the telescope and is dedicated to John Bolton , who has been largely responsible for the dish 's successful operation . |
| 8 | Atkinson said : ‘ It 's a blow to lose someone like Shaun , who has been so impressive for us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think everything has been too easy for him up to now , that 's Richard 's trouble . |
| 10 | He has been primarily responsible for the current European Union Treaty ( EUT ) which has effectively distilled a political idea into political practice . |
| 11 | He has been entirely responsible for the administration of the school … he will be very difficult to replace . ’ |
| 12 | He has been off sick for the last six weeks and may never return to the job . |
| 13 | ‘ He has been really good for her soul , ’ says one of her colleagues . |
| 14 | It has been particularly difficult for him because the Government have two of their placemen on the council , but he has managed to keep fighting though the council has this deadweight of government lackeys . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In practice , it has been extremely rare for the Lords to use even such powers as remain to it to reject Commons Bills . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | It has been more difficult for it to investigate the non-physical nature of prehistoric society . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been very sad for me , ’ she says . |
| 22 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 23 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 24 | Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming . |
| 25 | In the case of an inflected language or one with many and various verb-forms , it has been almost impossible for teachers to adapt to the new methods . |
| 26 | But in the advanced technologies , up to our own time , it has been almost impossible for working companies to have direct access to their relevant means of production , and a third form of the division of labour then appears , and in capitalist conditions becomes stable and regular . |
| 27 | It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context . |
| 28 | A formal concept since 1923 , millions of American dollars have been spent on it and it has been virtually complete for years . |
| 29 | Given our large and wide-ranging stock of Chinese and Japanese works of art , it has been relatively easy for us to find items with American provenances , but difficult to find ones with provenances of significance . |
| 30 | In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy . |