Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 32 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 33 | It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn . |
| 34 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 35 | Mozart 's church music — written as part of his duties — includes five more short Masses , of which K.262 is the most substantial : it may have been written for the Easter celebrations at the cathedral in 1776 . |
| 36 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 37 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 38 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 39 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 40 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 41 | The instructor 's braking would have been required for the stopping if the pupil had not braked . |
| 42 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |
| 43 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 44 | Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice . |
| 45 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 46 | One wonders whether an England bowler would have been picked for a tour after a start like that . |
| 47 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 48 | Mr Parker added that while TV might have been substituted for the Beano and the Dandy , perennial favourite authors , such as Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl , were still very important to young people in Ulster . |
| 49 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 50 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
| 51 | Life must go on , they intimated , while stressing that the stadium would never have been considered for a semi-final involving Liverpool or Nottingham Forest . |
| 52 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 53 | ‘ Mait wo n't have been heading for the dock , ’ Ace reasoned . |
| 54 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 55 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 56 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 57 | Somerset 's last wicket fell at 6.15pm , and in the ordinary course of events play would have been suspended for the day . |
| 58 | If he had eaten the grain instead , he and his family would not now be starving , but they would be homeless and the remains of the grain would have been seized for the debt . |
| 59 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 60 | At the same time , the additional possibility is not excluded that some of the crimes may have been chosen for the ‘ allegations ’ because individuals in high places had vested interests in having them pinned on persons other than the real culprits . |