Example sentences of "[modal v] have been necessary for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What remains unexplained is why it should have been necessary for the Deutschland to go aground , so preventing the nuns from continuing their service to God . |
| 2 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 3 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 4 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 5 | The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement . |
| 6 | For it to have left archaeological evidence it would have been necessary for it to have been manifested by a physical act of some kind , which would necessarily need to result in the production of something capable of preservation in the archaeological context . |
| 7 | It must be noted however that Alliance and UPNI supporters were also responsible for about 1,300 non-transferable votes and it would have been necessary for these either to have remained non-transferable or to have favoured SDLP as much as UUUC for those votes to have had no effect on the relative position of SDLP and VUPP . |
| 8 | In passing I have reflected its natural selection and our God had not created the fruit fly , it would have been necessary for biologists to have invented it . |