Example sentences of "been [adj] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 2 | Britain 's best performance was produced by Paul Evans , the Barcelona Olympics reserve , who finished fifth in 2–10–36 , 13 places ahead of Steve Brace ( 2–14–11 ) , who has been pre-selected for the Games . |
| 3 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 4 | It would even have been possible for the Secretary of State to have a reserve power to insist on ever more names from which to choose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ? |
| 7 | So it would have been possible for the GMC to try to challenge the basis of clinical ecology . |
| 8 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 9 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 10 | If , because of confidentiality or for other reasons , it has not been possible for the seller to make all enquiries that it otherwise would , the seller would be well advised to stipulate in the contract or disclosure letter what enquiries have been made . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 13 | The last few years have been rocky for the heir to the Blenheim Palace estate . |
| 14 | ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’ |
| 15 | The occurrence turned out to be a public demonstration of the skills and professionalism of the railway and a visitor remarked that it could not have been improved upon had it been stage-managed for the Gala . |
| 16 | Whilst it would have been sensible for the remit to have been reviewed at time the organisation was created , we acknowledge the political realities that existed . |
| 17 | These lakes have never been landlord lakes — the fishing has always been free for the people . |
| 18 | It might have been OK for the prairies , but bottom was n't low enough to cope with the hills of Nanaimo . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not been easy for the chairman and his board seeing us stuck on the bottom of the table , ’ said Clough . |
| 20 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 21 | In this example , it would have been easy for the teacher to have made the child 's decisions for her . |
| 22 | The past 10 years have not been easy for the profession . |
| 23 | The material conditions of production and distribution have been crucial for the perpetuation of the romance form , and the romance form continues to thrive because it so well answers the commercial demands of a mass-market paperback and communications industry . |
| 24 | Some aspects of the power settlement in post-war Japanese enterprises , particularly the enterprise unions , the wage payment systems and the flexibility which these allowed , have been crucial for the emergence of this putative postmodernist form of organization . |
| 25 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |
| 26 | That would have been impossible for the Shah . |
| 27 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 28 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 29 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 30 | Mother and Leo had been seasick for the duration of the crossing and had lain inert on deck-chairs . |