Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 4 | Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy . |
| 5 | Divisions may have been formed for administrative or historical reasons , which do not necessarily produce organizational units which are identical with SBUs . |
| 6 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 7 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |
| 8 | These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes . |
| 9 | ( b ) The property must have been intended for private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 10 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 11 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 12 | In less than five minutes , many hopes of success will have been dashed for another year . |
| 13 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 14 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 15 | Strictly singulares were members of governors ' personal bodyguards , drawn from auxiliary regiments , but they may also have been employed for other duties . |
| 16 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 17 | Thus if the 1976 Bill had gone through as introduced , railway and airline employees would have been treated as receiving benefits in kind from concessionary travel equal to the open market cost of tickets and schoolmasters would have been taxed for concessionary education on the amount of the normal school fees . |
| 18 | This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature . |
| 19 | Joe is keen to emphasise that the upstream sales would not have been concluded for less than full value . |
| 20 | The famous Curé d'Ars would have failed an ACCM on academic grounds and St Paul would have been rejected for other reasons . |
| 21 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 22 | Each species will have been selected for certain properties : |
| 23 | The common link between all three exhibitors is Hartlepool and its Art Club and many of the works here might almost have been destined for those annual sorties into the Hartlepool Marina and the town 's burgeoning renaissance . |
| 24 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 25 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 26 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 27 | Polarisation tended to occur more on simpler machines , which could be programmed off the shop floor and operated by those with less skill than would have been required for conventional machines doing work of that complexity . |
| 28 | Quinn gave him the car , a Volvo saloon , and its registration number ; both men surmised , rightly , that the plates would have been changed for that meeting , then changed back again . |
| 29 | The programme should have been broadcast for most of last month as well . |
| 30 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |