Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Marxists , petty bourgeois producers seem destined to be replaced by monopoly capital , while the advantages rendered by economies of scale have been sufficiently impressive for neo-classical economists to stress the unreality of atomistic competition . |
| 2 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 3 | Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel . |
| 4 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 5 | But it seems to have been equally rare for young couples in the poorer classes to help their ageing parents by providing them with houseroom . |
| 6 | However , testing memory for a specific item like a road sign does not tell the researcher about overall levels of memory which may have been quite good for other details . |
| 7 | Since those early days , the movement towards this goal has been very slow for economic and political reasons . |
| 8 | If SI units had been used results would have had to have been reported by height , age , and sex separately and the sample size would have been too small for useful analysis . |