Example sentences of "would [verb] [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 2 | Frankly , I 'd only have needed to brush my hand against my trouser zip before security guards would have been called for . |
| 3 | This was a case for which a substantial punishment was called for , and in the absence of a plea of guilty , a sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) of at least two years would have been called for . |
| 4 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 5 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 7 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 8 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 9 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 10 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 11 | As Graham Crowe said ‘ If all the 710 technicians sold as well as Brian Miller , then £34.5 million extra business would have been generated for Pest Control ’ . |
| 12 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 13 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 14 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 15 | Had they returned the Americans would certainly not have expected another raid and victory would have been assured for the Japanese . |
| 16 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 17 | The credit note may also cover the cost of pallets , crates and packaging materials returned to the manufacturer , which the retailer would have been charged for on the original invoice . |
| 18 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 19 | ‘ I know Ron would have been shouting for him . |
| 20 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 21 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 22 | Thus if the 1976 Bill had gone through as introduced , railway and airline employees would have been treated as receiving benefits in kind from concessionary travel equal to the open market cost of tickets and schoolmasters would have been taxed for concessionary education on the amount of the normal school fees . |
| 23 | It is neither composed of VC holders or aspirants nor of those who in earlier days would have been shot for cowardice . |
| 24 | Well I ca n't think why a free kick would have been given for anything else . |
| 25 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |
| 26 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 27 | If she had walked into a room and found him with her bag in his hands , the decision would have been made for her . |
| 28 | If rigorous logic had been followed , no payment at all would have been made for the transfer of development value to the state but this as the Uthwatt Committee had pointed out , would have resulted in considerable hardship in individual cases . |
| 29 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 30 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |