Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 2 | Garter snakes could almost have been made for the purpose , being undemanding in their housing and dietary requirements , harmless and relatively simple to breed in captivity … certainly less problematic than any lizard . |
| 3 | If rigorous logic had been followed , no payment at all would have been made for the transfer of development value to the state but this as the Uthwatt Committee had pointed out , would have resulted in considerable hardship in individual cases . |
| 4 | The gesture may have been made for the sake of appearances : after all , how could a minister be without Christian charity ? |
| 5 | It will have been made for the sailcloth trade but , due to some minor fault in manufacture , was released to the kite trade instead , and at an economic advantage . |
| 6 | In some cases doctor 's dentist 's or other appointments will have been made for the Thursdays when the bus failed to arrive . |
| 7 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 8 | I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front . |
| 9 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 10 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 11 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 12 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 13 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 14 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 15 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |
| 16 | I was glad he chose to wear it , for otherwise , in his shirt-sleeves and braces walking between us , it could have been mistaken for an arrest or at least a ‘ helping with inquiries ’ and the last thing I wanted was a street riot . |
| 17 | The folly was in failing to realise that more could have been achieved for the nation , within the EEC , by protecting regional interests , than could possibly be achieved for the regions by protecting national interests . |
| 18 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 19 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 20 | Had they returned the Americans would certainly not have expected another raid and victory would have been assured for the Japanese . |
| 21 | Thus , in a lesson lasting an hour , each pupil will have been observed for a maximum of 10 minutes spread at regular intervals over the hour . |
| 22 | After watching feeble jokes about Norma Major 's voting intentions and Neil Kinnock 's image , I wished it could have been monitored for an injection of humour . |
| 23 | It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn . |
| 24 | Mozart 's church music — written as part of his duties — includes five more short Masses , of which K.262 is the most substantial : it may have been written for the Easter celebrations at the cathedral in 1776 . |
| 25 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 26 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 27 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 28 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 29 | The instructor 's braking would have been required for the stopping if the pupil had not braked . |
| 30 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |