Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster .
2 Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others .
3 In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others .
4 The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane .
5 This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use .
6 The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors .
7 However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers .
8 What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost .
9 It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed .
10 The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated .
11 Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared .
12 The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines .
13 Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion .
14 This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) .
15 The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend .
16 The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’
17 We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk .
18 Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity .
19 All these hours in Madamoiselle McKirdy 's class will not have been for nothing .
20 Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught .
21 It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections .
22 What a tragedy that must have been for them all .
23 The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened .
24 The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) .
25 It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to .
26 But if no convincing reason for the station can be found , and if the project will no longer create so many jobs , then all the effort will have been for naught .
27 On occasion , strong political interest could push a young man forward much more rapidly than could have been for the good of the service .
28 Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead .
29 It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer .
30 Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds .
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