Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 32 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 33 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 34 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 35 | This must have been irksome for them , but Mrs Webster accepted it as her war work with good grace . |
| 36 | The trip home must have been hazardous for Mars alone had suffered 72 hits , leaving 29 of her complement dead and 85 wounded , and she now had three feet [ 0.9 m ] of water in her hold . |
| 37 | It must have been difficult for the teachers to organize things even before the arrival of the evacuees , who had problems of their own , of course , adjusting to a major change in lifestyle . |
| 38 | ‘ It must have been difficult for you , hiding Egan when Place was living with his sister . ’ |
| 39 | It must have been difficult for you . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I guess it must have been difficult for — for Suzanna to understand . |
| 41 | It must have been scary for you . |
| 42 | It must have been horrible for her . ’ |
| 43 | That must have been fun for her . |
| 44 | It must have been lonely for him . |
| 45 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 46 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |
| 47 | Robin Cranko thinks that one of them , if not both , must have been responsible for some branches of the Cranko family whom he came across during his researches . |
| 48 | His 19th C. biographer Charles Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures ; and the constant flow of visitors to his annual exhibitions in Ambleside and Keswick must have been responsible for carrying his work all over Britain . |
| 49 | The constant flow of visitors to his annual exhibitions in Ambleside and Keswick must have been responsible for carrying his work all over the country . |
| 50 | An itch of fascination at this utterly different , aberrant creature twisted within Lexandro , into rage — at the sly , inhuman intelligence which must have been responsible for the loss of those brave champions of Humanity who now lay lifeless in caskets . |
| 51 | This extraordinarily convoluted definition , the whole of which is in italics , must have been responsible for deterring thousands of readers from proceeding beyond page 15 of the General Theory , but it does make sense . |
| 52 | It must have been inconvenient for everyone . |
| 53 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 54 | Someone , somewhere must have been concerned for and worried about these unfortunate children and found their absence odd ; surely too , someone must have paid their fare and seen them off on their journey . |
| 55 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
| 56 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 57 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 58 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 59 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 60 | The degree of colonic bioavailability might have been insufficient for other reasons . |