Example sentences of "have be [adj] for " in BNC.
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1 | My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin ; but that period with her could have been deadly for me . |
2 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It would have been simple for Rachel . ’ |
5 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
6 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
7 | It could not have been easy for these men to deliver flocks and herds safely to their destination and the advent of motor transport must have been a blessing to animals . |
8 | It would have been easy for you to lose five pounds ’ worth of lead as you saddled up . |
9 | It can not have been easy for his wife to have Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu as in-laws . ) |
10 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
11 | It would have been easy for him to take it off . |
12 | It would have been easy for her to pass for a white girl . |
13 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
14 | I suppose it would have been easy for someone to ‘ lift ’ a few odd balls , but my innocent mind had never though of this ! |
15 | It can not have been easy for either of them . |
16 | In this example , it would have been easy for the teacher to have made the child 's decisions for her . |
17 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
18 | ‘ Without intimate knowledge of the business , it would have been easy for you to make an unintentional slip . |
19 | It would have been easy for anyone to reach in and yank a club out of the bag . ’ |
20 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
21 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
22 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
23 | ‘ I know that ca n't have been easy for you . ’ |
24 | ‘ It would have been easy for me to bring in someone without any experience and ease them into the job , ’ said Stapleton , now 36 . |
25 | It could n't have been easy for her , a young unmarried mother , coming back to Ireland . |
26 | ‘ It ca n't have been easy for her . |
27 | ‘ It ca n't have been easy for them either over the past week , not knowing who they 'd be playing . ’ |
28 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
29 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
30 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |