Example sentences of "it might have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 2 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 3 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 4 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 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 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 7 | It might have been OK for the prairies , but bottom was n't low enough to cope with the hills of Nanaimo . |
| 8 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |