Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers . |
| 4 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 8 | Must have been for Gail then . |
| 9 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 10 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 11 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 12 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 13 | In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 16 | Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds . |
| 17 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 18 | So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down . |
| 19 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 20 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 21 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 22 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 23 | But bedtime was at the usual time and , though Francie returned very late , he was slightly drunk so he could not have been to church . |
| 24 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 25 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 26 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 27 | However convenient the conflict of love and honour may have been to Anthony Hope as the motive force of his books , he treated it seriously within their emotional climate . |
| 28 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 29 | It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything . |
| 30 | will have been to Colombia as part of the Church leaders delegation in July organised by CA/CIIR and will go in September to Bangla Desh and India . |