Example sentences of "have be [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been easy for her to pass for a white girl . |
| 2 | It would have been easy for him to take it off . |
| 3 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have been easy for me to bring in someone without any experience and ease them into the job , ’ said Stapleton , now 36 . |
| 5 | It would have been easy for you to lose five pounds ’ worth of lead as you saddled up . |
| 6 | ‘ Without intimate knowledge of the business , it would have been easy for you to make an unintentional slip . |
| 7 | It would have been easy for anyone to reach in and yank a club out of the bag . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
| 9 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 10 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 11 | He had , of course , ensured this by demanding the presence of a Polish envoy to discuss them in Berlin before it would have been possible for anyone to get there . |
| 12 | ‘ Now , Mr Jordan , would it have been possible for someone to get into your shed on Friday night , remove the Scapegoat and substitute a body dressed in the Scapegoat 's clothes ? ’ |
| 13 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 14 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 15 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 16 | It would have been humiliating for her to say to her mother , ‘ I had nothing to do with it ; it was the bright boy who made the suggestion to the grand dame . ’ |
| 17 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 18 | For it to have left archaeological evidence it would have been necessary for it to have been manifested by a physical act of some kind , which would necessarily need to result in the production of something capable of preservation in the archaeological context . |
| 19 | Decide now what you really wanted to do , and what , with hindsight , would have been good for you to do or have . |
| 20 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 21 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , of course — the meeting to discuss the Christmas bazaar , ’ said Ianthe , remembering now that it would have been impossible for her to have had the quiet evening she had planned . |
| 23 | Her awareness of him was so intense that if his whole body had been dominating hers it would have been impossible for her to have felt more at the mercy of her own emotions . |
| 24 | It would surely have been impossible for anyone to stay morose when surrounded by all these excited , giggling children , and frankly , seeing the problems some of the handicapped youngsters had to contend with had made her horribly ashamed of her own self-absorption . |
| 25 | It would have been nice for him to wind things up by breaking the back of Britain 's opposition to integration . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 27 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 28 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 29 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 30 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |