Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 2 | This view of kinship as an opposite to capitalist relations of production explains the vivid interest with which Marx and Engels examined the work of such anthropologists as Bachofen , McLennan , and Maine , who were all concerned with this topic ; but above all it explains once again why Morgan should have been so important for them , since he above all was the expert on kinship . |
| 3 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 4 | The first appearance at away matches of massive groups of skinheads , all uniformly dressed and intent on smashing their opponents into the ground , must have been rather unnerving for the managers of those clubs who were hoping to turn football watching into a family outing . |
| 5 | It must have been rather unnerving for him to see his room thus turned upside down . |
| 6 | The car must have been exceptionally sturdy for it often had me driving and pedalling like mad , with one friend perched on the bonnet and another on the back . |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been pretty horrific for everyone watching , ’ Croft apologised after grinding down Alison Smith 6-4 6-7 6-3 to reach the second round of the Volkswagen National championships . |
| 8 | ‘ That must have been pretty frightful for you , ’ said Sophie , her optimism regenerated . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have been pretty horrendous for the spectators , ’ she confessed . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure it must have been quite dreadful for you , my dear , ’ said Frau Zimmerman , apparently taking the fräulein 's last remark to refer to her recent ordeal in the Bauernmarkt . |
| 11 | The war years must have been really frustrating for the early Rottweiler enthusiasts . |
| 12 | It must have been really strange for her , going to a new school all on her own , and a convent school at that , with nuns like great black crows floating down the corridors and carrying her off to chapel . |
| 13 | " I think I learnt a few things , " laughs Eva though at the time it must have been extremely painful for the girl who had " excelled at everything " . |
| 14 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 15 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 16 | That must have been very irritating for you . ’ |
| 17 | The prestige of Oswiu 's family , or else its capacity for intimidation , must have been very considerable for Aldfrith to return and rule in what seems to have been domestic peace . |
| 18 | Its influence must have been very considerable for the boy to have been so successfully supported for the kingship against an adult rival . |
| 19 | Becoming a farmer 's wife must have been very difficult for Grandma . |
| 20 | Life must have been very hard for many of these poor women . ’ |
| 21 | Making him into a saint must have been highly embarrassing for the opposition , and some of the satisfaction derived thereby is hinted at in a probably contemporary poem in the Chronicle . |
| 22 | As a consequence , feudal contracts in the full sense of the term must have been more important for supplying castle-guard than for campaigning ( though it would be pushing the argument too far to deny them any significance in the field ) . |
| 23 | Many of the linguistic elements are borrowed from Tolkien and — which must have been more exasperating for their originator — changed and got ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 24 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 25 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 26 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 27 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm only glad that we 'd made up , otherwise it could have been very awkward for me if Fran had refused to back up my story ! ’ |
| 29 | Remembering the circumstances of my birth , life could have been very different for me , could n't it ? |
| 30 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |