Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [been] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 2 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 3 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 4 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 5 | But if no convincing reason for the station can be found , and if the project will no longer create so many jobs , then all the effort will have been for naught . |
| 6 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |