Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 3 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 4 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 5 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 6 | Even with auxiliary regiments present , there would still have been work for an official to oversee civilian activities . |
| 7 | Cobalt shook his head , which might have meant he did n't know or might have been admonishment for Oliver who was still holding the bottle of wine . |
| 8 | Probably , at the present day , such service on such request would have raised a promise by implication to pay what it was worth , and the subsequent promise of a sum certain would have been evidence for the jury to fix the amount . ’ |
| 9 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 10 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 11 | I wonder how he would have done in today 's game , do you think there would have been room for him today ? |
| 12 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 13 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 14 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 15 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 16 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 17 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 18 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 19 | The inadequacy of the rest will have been cause for serious concern in the England camp . |
| 20 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 21 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 22 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 23 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 24 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It must have been murder for our mum . ’ |
| 26 | It must have been hell for you . |