Example sentences of "[vb infin] been for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | First , LAWER is viewed as the caring response of doctor and relatives for the patient , whose wishes , they feel ‘ confident ’ , would have been for life to have been ended . |
| 6 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 7 | Must have been for Gail then . |
| 8 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 11 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 12 | In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 15 | Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds . |
| 16 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 17 | So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |