Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this defence the defendant is saying that the plaintiff has failed to take reasonable care and thereby been partly responsible for his own injuries , loss or damage . |
| 2 | Freud cites one young man in relation to his father and another in relation to his twin , as well as the main case , a young woman in relation to her mother : ‘ It , then , the girl became homosexual and left men to her mother ( in other words ‘ retired in favour of' ’ her mother ) , she would hitherto remove something which had hitherto been partly responsible for her mother 's dislike' ( ix . |
| 3 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 4 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
| 5 | And a recent book which has been very popular in the university , Goedel Esher Bach , which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got a quite a long article on how the author actually organized all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it had obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 6 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 7 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 8 | I have not been really warm for days . |
| 9 | It is symptomatic that the directors of insolvent companies ignore demands for payment , and frequently judgments are obtained where the proceedings have not been quite wrong for such judgment creditors to obtain any preferential treatment . |
| 10 | He answered cryptically but not very informatively ; ‘ It has not been though expedient for the Grand Junction to widen the locks . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It sounds as though life 's not been too easy for you since then . ’ |
| 12 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women . |
| 15 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | English gold had always been readily available for information of a political nature . |
| 18 | Long-time exhibitor at the Ceramics Fair , Clemens Van der Ven of s'Hertogenbosch , The Netherlands , who specialises in Oriental Art , explains his continued presence at the fair : ‘ The Ceramics Fair has always been very successful for us . |
| 19 | The teachers treat me as an adult , but I 've always been very mature for my age . |
| 20 | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons . |
| 21 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 22 | And that in modernity ( probably Giddens is clearest in this statement ) social actors can take cognizance of , and reflect rationally on , rules that had previously been only implicit for them . |
| 23 | Danu had never been that easy for him , even though the people had taken to the saints and images of Catholicism with the usual zeal of the pagan at heart . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There has probably never been more choice for places in which you can invest than now . |
| 26 | Paige had never been more thankful for the darkness . |