Example sentences of "have be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of these policies , one or the other restrictive practice has been singled out as the root cause of our ills — resale price maintenance , clearing banks ' cartel , trade unions — the cry has been for their removal . |
| 2 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 3 | When fellwalking becomes a passion as it has been for me and many others , the summits are regarded as old friends and memories are refreshed on each visit . |
| 4 | I do n't think people have any idea how tough it has been for me . |
| 5 | Or it certainly has been for me . |
| 6 | Everything my husband has done has been for me . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ How wonderful it has been for us both to seek new understanding of each other as we have prayed together and sought healing from each other 's wounds . ’ |
| 8 | There is no mention anywhere of the fact that these were brothers and sisters , nor that they were born in Frome ; that has been for us to establish later . |
| 9 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 10 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 11 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 12 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 13 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 14 | I have no doubt that a major influence in forcing him to make what must have been for him a most distasteful and humiliating manoeuvre , was a letter sent by a number of Durham county councillors to a local newspaper in reply to an article penned by Mr Fallon in the previous week 's issue . |
| 15 | All these hours in Madamoiselle McKirdy 's class will not have been for nothing . |
| 16 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 17 | ‘ If we ca n't get these orders out on time , all the effort we 've put in will have been for nothing . |
| 18 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 19 | If she decides to go straight home all this will have been for nothing . ’ |
| 20 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 21 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
| 22 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 23 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 24 | How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead ! |
| 25 | Nick Day , blinking blood , received a push that could have been for anybody , and went onto his knees . |
| 26 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 27 | But if no convincing reason for the station can be found , and if the project will no longer create so many jobs , then all the effort will have been for naught . |
| 28 | He 'll have been for his interview and for his wages in Calper today . |
| 29 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 30 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |