Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think that attitude has been very bad for the industry as a whole . |
| 8 | Where the private sector has been legally liable for the costs of doing so , liability has been much more limited than in America . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 10 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
| 11 | ‘ Flashman 's behaviour has been too pathetic for words . ’ |
| 12 | The study of social policy has been particularly conspicuous for the specific political or value commitments of those who write about it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The blood transfusion has been quite effective for the anaemia , but she 's going to need more . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In this respect the emergence of the Rugby World Cup has been extremely beneficial for out brand . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Since those early days , the movement towards this goal has been very slow for economic and political reasons . |
| 20 | The restructuring that has taken place during the Government 's tenure of office has been remarkably good for the region . |
| 21 | We have a son who still lives at home who in fact has been quite ill for a long time and erm she you know the amount the work she has done therefore has been seriously limited . |