Example sentences of "[adv] have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 2 | As for boffin , although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown , I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it . |
| 3 | Secondly , even if the plaintiff could have sued the armed robbers , they would only have been liable for depriving the plaintiff of a damaged left leg . |
| 4 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 5 | We do not use them only because those we have employed hitherto have been sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 6 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 7 | Had that been so , it would not have been necessary for his contract to include a statement that , ‘ the Company will bear the entire cost of servicing , repairing , maintaining , taxing and insuring the said motor car ’ . |
| 8 | The phrase ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ is evidently used in a fairly narrow sense : otherwise it would not have been necessary for Parliament to provide , by section 8(2) , that the expression includes diagnostic procedures , and ancillary procedures such as the administration of an anaesthetic . |
| 9 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 10 | In the yard at the back , a slow burning bon fire added to the pong which could not have been good for those living nearby . |
| 11 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 12 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We offer the literature of reassurance ’ states the press office for Mills and Boon : a reassurance that has been marketed with resounding success , a success that would not have been possible for Mills and Boon or for Harlequin without the intervention and resources of the Torstar Corporation . |
| 15 | It would not have been possible for the Government of 1945-51 to get through the legislation if they had faced the delaying tactics that have characterised the progress of Bills in the past 11 to 12 years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 18 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 19 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 20 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It can not have been easy for his wife to have Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu as in-laws . ) |
| 23 | It can not have been easy for either of them . |
| 24 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 25 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 26 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 27 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 28 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |
| 29 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 30 | In short , it appears that temperature/time relationships may not have been unfavourable for hydrocarbon generation and preservations in the Variscan foreland and at least the leading thrust sheet , warranting attention to the availability of source rocks , reservoir rocks , cap rocks , and structures . |