Example sentences of "have been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , the observations made by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle , for example , would have been inconsequential for science had they remained Darwin 's private experiences . |
| 2 | It would have been simple for Rachel . ’ |
| 3 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
| 4 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 5 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 6 | Had this been successful it would have been possible for managers of education and training at every level within a locality to identify major employment issues , to assess likely large-scale change in employment patterns and to identify educational links which might have to be developed or changed . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 9 | HIV may have been present for centuries in a relatively harmless form and only recently evolved into a more damaging one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 12 | In passing I have reflected its natural selection and our God had not created the fruit fly , it would have been necessary for biologists to have invented it . |
| 13 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 14 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
| 15 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 16 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
| 17 | It would n't have been good for staff morale . |
| 18 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 19 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 20 | Roxburgh had said the occasion would have been worthwhile for Scotland if the friendly match yielded a genuine contender for a place in the fiercely competitive atmosphere of Lisbon 's Stadium of Light next month . |
| 21 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It would have been impossible for Liza not to realise her growing power over the opposite sex , nor fail to notice the kind of dumb adoration in which Corporal Carrow held her . |
| 25 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 26 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 27 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 28 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 29 | Case records were retrieved and examined to established if these patients would have been suitable for transplant assessment , either on the basis of poor quality of life or expected survival , in the absence of transplantation , of less than one year . |
| 30 | It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet . |