Example sentences of "might have been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 2 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 3 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 4 | Ninety one balls and one four , and not a typical DaSilva innings and one does wonders whether in the end it might have been better for Sri Lanka to play at a more natural game . |
| 5 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 6 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |