Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
| 2 | Yet this inflexibility spoiled a day that should have been special for Dr Schofield . |
| 3 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 4 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 5 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Roxburgh had said the occasion would have been worthwhile for Scotland if the friendly match yielded a genuine contender for a place in the fiercely competitive atmosphere of Lisbon 's Stadium of Light next month . |
| 12 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
| 13 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 14 | It would have been simple for Rachel . ’ |
| 15 | It would have been impossible for Liza not to realise her growing power over the opposite sex , nor fail to notice the kind of dumb adoration in which Corporal Carrow held her . |
| 16 | Karsten Schubert , who would have been eligible for Art Cologne this year , chose to ‘ start something new , very rough , to which you could invite the people you really admire ’ . |
| 17 | Mark himself states that it would have been remarkable for Jesus to have found fruit on the tree for it was not even the proper season for fruit . |
| 18 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |