Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have be [verb] 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 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 3 | In the days before radio the shelter was a link with other drivers and todays cabbies say it should have been kept for them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her parents say the man who did it should have been gaoled for life . |
| 6 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 7 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 8 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 9 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , yes , madam — it might have been made for you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 19 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 20 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 21 | 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 . |