Example sentences of "it [modal v] have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's church music — written as part of his duties — includes five more short Masses , of which K.262 is the most substantial : it may have been written for the Easter celebrations at the cathedral in 1776 . |
| 2 | In the days before radio the shelter was a link with other drivers and todays cabbies say it should have been kept for them . |
| 3 | It was held that there was a clear infringement of the Compaq trade mark , although it was accepted that it was arguable whether it should have been accepted for registration because of its phonetic similarity with " Compact " , an everyday word . |
| 4 | Her parents say the man who did it should have been gaoled for life . |
| 5 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 6 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , yes , madam — it might have been made for you . |
| 8 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 9 | After watching feeble jokes about Norma Major 's voting intentions and Neil Kinnock 's image , I wished it could have been monitored for an injection of humour . |
| 10 | I was glad he chose to wear it , for otherwise , in his shirt-sleeves and braces walking between us , it could have been mistaken for an arrest or at least a ‘ helping with inquiries ’ and the last thing I wanted was a street riot . |
| 11 | Like the rest of the staff , he wore a burgundy-coloured uniform although , apart from his name tag , it could have been taken for a regular formal suit . |
| 12 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |
| 13 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 14 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 15 | It will have been made for the sailcloth trade but , due to some minor fault in manufacture , was released to the kite trade instead , and at an economic advantage . |