Example sentences of "[adv] have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 2 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 3 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 4 | Such a performance can only have been intended for entertainment in a programme of venationes and gladiatorial combats . |
| 5 | Some of these diplomatic operations can only have been performed for the gratification of the Jews themselves . |
| 6 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 7 | Joe is keen to emphasise that the upstream sales would not have been concluded for less than full value . |
| 8 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 9 | Speaking after the disaster , however , junior Environment Minister Tony Baldry claimed that : " a discharge on such a large scale could not have been planned for " . |
| 10 | He may not have been prepared for what followed . |
| 11 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 12 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |
| 13 | The creature which should not have been came for her , clawhands jerking . |
| 14 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 15 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |
| 16 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 17 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 18 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 19 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 20 | If it was , then the theatre score could just as easily have been copied for the first run as for the revival . |
| 21 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |
| 22 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 23 | I have discovered two new rooms in the tower ; the lower , immediately above the fan ceiling , has bell ropes dangling and is obviously still in use , whilst the upper is bare , dusty boards apart from a giant treadmill in the centre which might once have been used for hauling up stone but is clearly redundant now . |
| 24 | So laying its hands on that 8+ per cent may not be as straightforward as might once have been thought for W&M . |
| 25 | He recommended Richard Coppin [ q.v. ] as his successor and emigrated to Barbados in about 1655 , where he may later have been investigated for organizing conventicles . |
| 26 | We found that although up to 11 ( 17% ) patients admitted with liver disease to a district general hospital over a three year period might reasonably have been considered for liver transplantation , only three ( 5% ) were actually referred . |
| 27 | John would probably have been reprimanded for playing with something in lesson time . |
| 28 | The recently written Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , may also have been intended for performance there , but none is recorded . |
| 29 | Strictly singulares were members of governors ' personal bodyguards , drawn from auxiliary regiments , but they may also have been employed for other duties . |
| 30 | The Infirmary Sub-Committee might also have been commended for their diligence and attention to detail while building was in progress , as the following two consecutive minutes from the House Committee 's meeting in April 1916 show : |