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 . |