Example sentences of "have be [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 2 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 3 | In this example , it would have been easy for the teacher to have made the child 's decisions for her . |
| 4 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 5 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 6 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 7 | Without this control it would have been possible for a Committee with a bondholding minority to make bad decisions to the cost of the Bondholders . |
| 8 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 9 | It would even have been possible for the Secretary of State to have a reserve power to insist on ever more names from which to choose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So it would have been possible for the GMC to try to challenge the basis of clinical ecology . |
| 12 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 13 | It would not have been possible for the Government of 1945-51 to get through the legislation if they had faced the delaying tactics that have characterised the progress of Bills in the past 11 to 12 years . |
| 14 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 15 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 16 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 17 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 20 | What remains unexplained is why it should have been necessary for the Deutschland to go aground , so preventing the nuns from continuing their service to God . |
| 21 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 22 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 27 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 28 | That would have been impossible for the Shah . |
| 29 | The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system . |
| 30 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |