Example sentences of "have be [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car must have been exceptionally sturdy for it often had me driving and pedalling like mad , with one friend perched on the bonnet and another on the back . |
| 2 | Indeed , a series of bad harvests in the 1350s and 1360s , which increased food prices , may have been partly responsible for deferring the increase in real wages following the Black Death . |
| 3 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 4 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 5 | The first appearance at away matches of massive groups of skinheads , all uniformly dressed and intent on smashing their opponents into the ground , must have been rather unnerving for the managers of those clubs who were hoping to turn football watching into a family outing . |
| 6 | It must have been rather unnerving for him to see his room thus turned upside down . |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been pretty horrific for everyone watching , ’ Croft apologised after grinding down Alison Smith 6-4 6-7 6-3 to reach the second round of the Volkswagen National championships . |
| 8 | ‘ That must have been pretty frightful for you , ’ said Sophie , her optimism regenerated . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have been pretty horrendous for the spectators , ’ she confessed . |
| 10 | Such a match , compared to that with the dauphin , would have been distinctly disparaging for Mary . |
| 11 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 12 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 13 | Inspector Nigel Rock said : ‘ It is absolutely horrific and the whole thing will have been particularly painful for the mother who was walking behind . |
| 14 | THERE have been lucky winners of the Grand National but , of them all 100–1 chance Foinavon must rank supreme — and may also have been indirectly responsible for saving the race . |
| 15 | It must indeed have been most galling for him to be so addressed by one such as I. ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 17 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 18 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 19 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 20 | There were some mornings , Monday mornings in particular , when it would have been as quick for him to walk to the main gates and then catch an internal minibus to his office block . |
| 21 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 22 | It must have been really strange for her , going to a new school all on her own , and a convent school at that , with nuns like great black crows floating down the corridors and carrying her off to chapel . |
| 23 | The war years must have been really frustrating for the early Rottweiler enthusiasts . |
| 24 | They would not have been refreshingly down-to-earth for her sake . |
| 25 | It may have been relatively easy for a large part of the workforce to switch from manufacturing to service industries in the 1980s , but to do the opposite is more difficult . |
| 26 | In addition , it was found that the breach was caused by the negligence of the defendants , and that it would have been relatively easy for the defendants to insure against potential liability to the plaintiffs . |
| 27 | Modugno said it would have been almost impossible for Mansell to see the flag while following closely behind the McLaren-Honda of Ayrton Senna . |
| 28 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 29 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 30 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |