Example sentences of "have been [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It could not have been easy for these men to deliver flocks and herds safely to their destination and the advent of motor transport must have been a blessing to animals .
2 The degree of colonic bioavailability might have been insufficient for other reasons .
3 Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan .
4 It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines .
5 On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance .
6 Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success .
7 I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’
8 The effects of the full implementation of the changes would have been substantial for particular areas and many small businesses would have been badly affected .
9 So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that .
10 She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake .
11 Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so .
12 Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies .
13 Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens .
14 Just a few months ago walking like this would have been impossible for 12 year old Ashley Smith .
15 If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time .
16 Frank and Wallerstein 's versions of the international division of labour may have been accurate for some countries during some periods , but the re-formation of capitalism on a global scale in the latter part of the twentieth century has rendered it increasingly less so .
17 It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate .
18 The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life .
19 It would have been unthinkable for former premier Margaret Thatcher to go to America without being received by then-president Ronald Reagan amid tributes to the two country 's ‘ special relationship ’ .
20 This represents a major step forward in unlocking the commercial potential of our inner cities and of breathing new life into areas which may have been derelict for many years .
21 Prior to 12th April , both women would have been eligible for free advice .
22 And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her .
23 Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough .
24 This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place .
25 Robin Cranko thinks that one of them , if not both , must have been responsible for some branches of the Cranko family whom he came across during his researches .
26 Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard .
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