Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 2 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 3 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 4 | If this had been a reflection of basic principles of justice there could have been little cause for complaint , but in fact an examination of the position shows clearly that this was not the case . |
| 5 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 6 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 7 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 8 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 9 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 10 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 11 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |