Example sentences of "have be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 2 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 8 | It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 11 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 12 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 13 | 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 . ) . |
| 14 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 15 | The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All these hours in Madamoiselle McKirdy 's class will not have been for nothing . |
| 19 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 22 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 23 | The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On occasion , strong political interest could push a young man forward much more rapidly than could have been for the good of the service . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds . |
| 30 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |