Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake .
2 Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda .
3 Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so .
4 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 .
5 The degree of colonic bioavailability might have been insufficient for other reasons .
6 This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place .
7 In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose .
8 As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war .
9 Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough .
10 The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life .
11 Frank and Wallerstein 's versions of the international division of labour may have been accurate for some countries during some periods , but the re-formation of capitalism on a global scale in the latter part of the twentieth century has rendered it increasingly less so .
12 This represents a major step forward in unlocking the commercial potential of our inner cities and of breathing new life into areas which may have been derelict for many years .
13 This may have been fine for early disposable e-mail , but as office systems of all kinds have developed into tools to create , store , retrieve and delete the only copy of more substantial record types , it is necessary to institute more organised retention methods .
14 It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate .
15 Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet .
16 It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery .
17 I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back .
18 Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them .
19 If the proposals which I put forward on behalf of the Conservative group had been adopted , £15,000 not £1,500 would have been available for practical environmental issues this year .
20 ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps .
21 On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance .
22 It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines .
23 Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip .
24 Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens .
25 So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that .
26 Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies .
27 Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success .
28 The effects of the full implementation of the changes would have been substantial for particular areas and many small businesses would have been badly affected .
29 It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't .
30 Just a few months ago walking like this would have been impossible for 12 year old Ashley Smith .
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