Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would [verb] [been] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 2 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 3 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 4 | The better approach would have been for the company to insist that an express term was inserted into the contract to the effect that the computer to be acquired must be compatible with the existing equipment . |
| 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 | This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery . |
| 7 | The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’ |
| 8 | In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering . |
| 9 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |