Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 2 | It must indeed have been most galling for him to be so addressed by one such as I. ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas . |
| 5 | Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas . |
| 6 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 7 | The first appearance at away matches of massive groups of skinheads , all uniformly dressed and intent on smashing their opponents into the ground , must have been rather unnerving for the managers of those clubs who were hoping to turn football watching into a family outing . |
| 8 | It must have been rather unnerving for him to see his room thus turned upside down . |
| 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 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 11 | The restructuring that has taken place during the Government 's tenure of office has been remarkably good for the region . |
| 12 | Our Jay has been remarkably un-rampant for years ! ’ |
| 13 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 14 | Attempts to create producer cartels for copper , aluminium and other commodities have , however , been less successful for lack of diplomatic solidarity . |
| 15 | Those present — the press at previews and the public at the major European motor shows — could n't have been less prepared for what they saw . |
| 16 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 22 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 23 | Since then , the Assistant Director in Scotland has been administratively responsible for staff in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 25 | Nor would it have been constitutionally possible for me to have become head of the Church of England . ’ |
| 26 | In this respect the emergence of the Rugby World Cup has been extremely beneficial for out brand . |
| 27 | Christ was not a worldly ruler , and some of the virtues which he preached , like meekness , would have been extremely dangerous for rulers to imitate . |
| 28 | In practice , it has been extremely rare for the Lords to use even such powers as remain to it to reject Commons Bills . |
| 29 | " I think I learnt a few things , " laughs Eva though at the time it must have been extremely painful for the girl who had " excelled at everything " . |
| 30 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , in certain cases , it has been extremely difficult for some smaller pubs to be able to pay the amount of money that some of the brewers have been asking them to pay ? |