Example sentences of "have been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated .
2 In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others .
3 IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday .
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 ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses .
6 What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost .
7 Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt .
8 It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health .
9 The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region .
10 The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region .
11 He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender .
12 With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association .
13 Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees .
14 Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition .
15 The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed .
16 No doubt his electoral leadership was of value ; but can it have been of decisive importance ?
17 They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours .
18 For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War .
19 The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful .
20 This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study .
21 No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince .
22 In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working .
23 For Cadafael , king of Gwynedd , Oswiu 's domination of the north Britons , perhaps particularly the Votadini , may have been of principal concern .
24 The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation .
25 So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest .
26 ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’
27 In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management .
28 It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house .
29 Firstly , the hypotensive effect of this drug may not have been of sufficient size to reduce microalbuminuria .
30 Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value .
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