Sentence examples for had been superfluous from inspiring English sources

In fact that question mark had been superfluous for more than a week, since Lance Armstrong won the first of the Tour's two Pyrenean stages at the grim little ski resort of La Mongie.

But, even if he had been there, his skills as a troll might have been superfluous.

Mr. Gosling and Mr. Huebner offered a performance so colorful and breezy that winds would surely have been superfluous.

Given that case, Mr. Jordan said, it would have been superfluous to indict him for the Jena payoffs.

If their attitude is as unbending as has been made out, this meeting, says the "Daily Mirror," would seem to have been superfluous.

Since the statue was always meant to be displayed in water, legs would have been superfluous and prohibitively expensive, Mr. Crowther said.

The reader might not know what the Sonderverband was, but surely it would have been superfluous to identify it for Rommel.

Had the Secretary thought that Public Land Order No. 487 had already withdrawn the lands covered by it from appropriation under the mineral-leasing laws, his reference to such laws in the 1951 orders would have been superfluous.

For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead" (II Macc. 12 43 45).

The immense crowds, patient and joyful and fraternal; the music; the mere sight (even the mere fact) of the youthful, graceful President and his beautiful dark-skinned family — given these, some have argued, more emotion would have been superfluous.

The argument is also refuted by the recent amendment to §2244(b)(3)(E) barring certiorari review of court of appeals denials of motions to file second or successive habeas applications, which would have been superfluous were such a motion not a case in the court of appeals for §1254 1) purposes, see, e.g., Kawaauhau v. Geiger, 523 U.S. ----, ----, 118 S.Ct.