Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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1 | The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet , and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Although this has been particularly influential for many forms of Western Marxism , it also represents a deviation from Marx 's original claim that history is the effect of material conditions rather than of human consciousness . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy . |
7 | Brian Jackson has been particularly responsible for highlighting the problem of the child minder , especially the ‘ illegal ’ ( unregistered ) child minder . |
8 | The study of social policy has been particularly conspicuous for the specific political or value commitments of those who write about it . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Spracklen , who is 52 and lives in Marlow , has been largely responsible for their revival , believing them as valid today as they were 100 years ago . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | So , while the stock market boom has played a crucial part in entrenching the wealth position of those who own most , the spread of owner-occupation , coupled with the rapid rise in house prices , has been largely responsible for extending the scope of capital ownership to well over 60 per cent of the population . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He has been primarily responsible for the current European Union Treaty ( EUT ) which has effectively distilled a political idea into political practice . |
19 | Our Jay has been remarkably un-rampant for years ! ’ |
20 | The restructuring that has taken place during the Government 's tenure of office has been remarkably good for the region . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
24 | So the arrival and use of relational databases has been absolutely perfect for our approach to development of accounting systems . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ It has been very sad for me , ’ she says . |
27 | ‘ 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 . |
28 | IN MOST respects 1990 has been very successful for , despite the gloomy predictions for much of the agricultural industry and the dismal annual reports from a number of competitors in the feed industry . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |