Example sentences of "have been [adv] [det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Luckily Miss Malley was on leave at the time , otherwise this event might just have been too much for her . |
| 3 | It would have been too much for poor Bridget , looking after them , when she had so much to do . |
| 4 | It is hard to believe they would have been too much for the North Atlantic alliance . |
| 5 | The strain of prolonged interviews might have been too much for her . ’ |
| 6 | But as Brown Owl pinned my Promise Badge on me , and said , ‘ I trust you to keep the Promise ’ , the excitement must have been too much for Natalie ! |
| 7 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 8 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 9 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 10 | In the past the temptation to gallop across the hallowed Cowdray turf , which so many of them were not going to have the chance to play on , had been too much for the teams . |
| 11 | But it had been too much for Gurder . |
| 12 | An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her . |
| 13 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |
| 14 | The excitement of Cynthia 's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse . |
| 15 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 16 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 17 | He had been abroad , and things had been too much for his younger brother , he having been deserted by his partners . |
| 18 | The journey had been too much for her , he thought apprehensively , but when she spoke it was in a cheerful raised voice . |
| 19 | The pious hush in there had been too much for them . |
| 20 | He probably expected to find that the problem had been too much for her . |
| 21 | There 's been very little for United fans to cheer about this season . |
| 22 | It 's been too much for him , too great a burden . |