Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 2 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 3 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 4 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 6 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 7 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 8 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 9 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |