Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A working week of over a hundred hours should have been ruinous for the libido , looking back . |
| 2 | What remains unexplained is why it should have been necessary for the Deutschland to go aground , so preventing the nuns from continuing their service to God . |
| 3 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 4 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 5 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
| 6 | Yet this inflexibility spoiled a day that should have been special for Dr Schofield . |
| 7 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 8 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 11 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 12 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 13 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 14 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 15 | ‘ That must have been awful for him because he loves his food . |
| 16 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 17 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 18 | It must have been creepy for you , going into that empty house and finding something nasty behind the door … hey , that 'd make a title , would n't it ? |
| 19 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 20 | It must have been terrible for him . |
| 21 | It must have been terrible for you all these years , but what a day it 'll be when Terry comes home , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 22 | It must have been terrible for her gran , wanting to explain about the Italian connection , and being unable to . |
| 23 | ‘ It must have been terrible for you when they told you there was nothing more they could do , ’ Juliet said quickly . |
| 24 | ‘ Nico , it must have been — it must have been terrible for you , loving her and losing her . |
| 25 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 26 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 27 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 28 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 29 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 30 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |