Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed . |
| 3 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 4 | The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’ |
| 5 | The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) . |
| 6 | On occasion , strong political interest could push a young man forward much more rapidly than could have been for the good of the service . |
| 7 | To insist upon the inquest in these circumstances could only have been for the purpose of procuring a rapping over the knuckles in public of that authority and/or a convenient means of obtaining evidence for a subsequent claim against it . |
| 8 | He could even appreciate how tricky a situation this must have been for the DIA , although it did little to ease his sense of injury . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery . |
| 12 | And that would undoubtedly have been for the best . |
| 13 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 15 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 16 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 17 | Most travel journalists will not have been to the Giants ' Grotto , of course , but they will certainly have seen the handy paragraph in the travel company press pack . |
| 18 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 19 | I detest the noisy unanimity of Picasso 's heirs , in particular that of Bernard and Paloma Picasso : the former thinks that ‘ the Reina Sofia is a wonderful place for ‘ Guernica' 's last journey , while the latter believes that Guernica' 's last journey should have been to the Prado ’ . |
| 20 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 21 | Whatever I read would have been to the accompaniment of music — one of my three favourite composers , Beethoven , Mozart or Schubert — and a long drawn out glass or two of post-prandial port . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be . |
| 23 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 24 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 25 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 26 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
| 27 | While he was in Chinese captivity , and apart from writing poems in classical Chinese ( some of which , while they may not have been of the highest order classically , are nevertheless moving and rather beautiful ) Ho had also translated Dr Sun Yat Sen 's modern political classic the San Min Chu I into Vietnamese and this expedient flattery of China and Chinese continued after Ho 's release . |
| 28 | She went upstairs to change , thinking how proud Arnold would have been of the way she had coped with the water shortage . |
| 29 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 30 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |