Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have be forgiven for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he arrived with Kylie in London , however , Blamey could have been forgiven for thinking his relationship with the Minogues was to be a short one . |
| 2 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 3 | The people of Northern Ireland could have been forgiven for believing this to be no longer so . |
| 4 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 5 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
| 6 | The combined maps issued by the three tramway companies used a symbol to indicate through services , under the description ‘ Services are operated ’ , and the intending passenger might have been forgiven for expecting to see Company 's cars working on them . |
| 7 | WHEN TEA was taken at 3.10 on the final afternoon of the first Test , even the more fervent student for the long game could have been forgiven for switching to automatic pilot . |
| 8 | Racegoers could have been forgiven for steering well clear of Britain 's first Sunday jump meeting . |
| 9 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 10 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the thousands of kids at the game that a passer-by might have been forgiven for thinking that either Take That or New Kids On The Block were performing at Ibrox rather than Scotland 's football team . |
| 11 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |