Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [been] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock .
2 Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared .
3 Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion .
4 A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police .
5 In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others .
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