Example sentences of "have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance . |
| 2 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 3 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 4 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 5 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 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 is important to note , however , that the categories used in the Rolfe and Will lists may have been assigned for reasons of literary expediency , rather than as the result of rigorous classification . |
| 8 | Their locations might suggest that the former developed before the frontages were completely built up ( though structures may have been cleared for it ) while the latter had to use land behind them . |
| 9 | They could have been tailored for you . |
| 10 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 11 | Garter snakes could almost have been made for the purpose , being undemanding in their housing and dietary requirements , harmless and relatively simple to breed in captivity … certainly less problematic than any lizard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The gesture may have been made for the sake of appearances : after all , how could a minister be without Christian charity ? |
| 14 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 15 | There was little spare cash in the home , so real sacrifices must have been made for me . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , yes , madam — it might have been made for you . |
| 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 | It was a monumental folly , which could have been made for horror films . |
| 19 | If she had walked into a room and found him with her bag in his hands , the decision would have been made for her . |
| 20 | And then I saw my chance : a small window that could have been made for me was open . |
| 21 | In some cases doctor 's dentist 's or other appointments will have been made for the Thursdays when the bus failed to arrive . |
| 22 | If rigorous logic had been followed , no payment at all would have been made for the transfer of development value to the state but this as the Uthwatt Committee had pointed out , would have resulted in considerable hardship in individual cases . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | North , carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms , gave him the Whole Picture . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 27 | He may not have been prepared for what followed . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 30 | I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front . |