Example sentences of "[vb infin] been in vain " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unless the Government acts to free students from this sort of red fascism , then all the words of the Education Reform Act will have been in vain . ’ |
| 2 | If this is not done , a return to pre-civilisation conditions could be mankind-s fate , and all the sufferings of thousands of years would have been in vain . |
| 3 | For if only he could fly free then perhaps this life of hers would not have been in vain . |
| 4 | If that happens , the sufferings of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West , of Myra and of his family , whom many of us know and admire , will not have been in vain . |
| 5 | ‘ If at least one young person decides to give up putting a foot into a stolen car ever again , then her son 's death will not have been in vain ; and another mother will not have to experience the heartbreak she is experiencing . |
| 6 | If Stuart Graham can find the passion of his final speeches a little sooner in the play , and if Peter O'Meara can keep his enthusiasm on the boil , Ms Johnston 's endeavour will not have been in vain . |
| 7 | But press officer for Jet , John Maple , who belongs to the same union as Mr Keeping , says that there are statutory reasons why this morning 's protest may have been in vain . |