Example sentences of "would have been for " in BNC.

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1 Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others .
2 In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others .
3 The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane .
4 The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors .
5 It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed .
6 The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines .
7 The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’
8 Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity .
9 Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught .
10 The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened .
11 It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer .
12 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 .
13 More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use .
14 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 .
15 First , LAWER is viewed as the caring response of doctor and relatives for the patient , whose wishes , they feel ‘ confident ’ , would have been for life to have been ended .
16 The better approach would have been for the company to insist that an express term was inserted into the contract to the effect that the computer to be acquired must be compatible with the existing equipment .
17 First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views .
18 Worse still would have been for the republic to wriggle out of its predicament , most likely by appointing de Gaulle as an emergency premier so as to appease the army .
19 This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery .
20 In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering .
21 ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses .
22 ‘ 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 .
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