Example sentences of "have been [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone .
2 It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation .
3 The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement .
4 Nor do I recognise the judges who can discriminate between frivolous and genuine employers in the Appeal Court ruling that dock strikes might have been illegal for the past 40 years .
5 The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons .
6 The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system .
7 Several years ago it would have been incomprehensible for a rational scientist or physician to conclude that myocardial ischaemia might somehow act to protect the heart from necrosis .
8 Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so
9 It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’
10 It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world .
11 It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue .
12 Gasoline would have been ideal for a sudden blaze ; the sealed nuclear drive was useless in that respect .
13 One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time .
14 Malherbe may well have been responsible for a new approach apparent in vol.9 and in most of those from vol.1 onwards , which contain none of the serious distortions outlined above .
15 Also both control and histamine treated tumours had a similar proportion of malignant cells , stroma , and vascularisation , suggesting direct proliferative effects on the xenograft may have been responsible for the increased size .
16 It has been suggested that such a speculative bubble may have been responsible for the rapid rise in equity prices in 1987 .
17 The effect of a heavy physical workload was examined because epidemiological data suggest that this , and the associated high salt intake , may have been responsible for the high incidence of peptic ulceration early in the 20th century .
18 Chamberlain pointed out that the relationship between maturity and volume was not monotonic , with volume initially increasing , and then decreasing as delivery became imminent , and this may have been responsible for the positive relationship .
19 Of course , you may not have been responsible for an existing problem .
20 I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too .
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