Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 3 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 4 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 7 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 8 | Leaders of ambulance crews argue that their industrial action , in protest at a 6.5 per cent pay offer , has exposed the lack of personnel which may have been responsible for the deaths . |
| 9 | When it came , the eruption was of massive proportions and deposited a great thickness of ash which completely buried the town , and it set off great tidal waves which may have been responsible for the termination of the Minoan civilization by ravaging the coastal towns all around Crete . |
| 10 | This represents a major step forward in unlocking the commercial potential of our inner cities and of breathing new life into areas which may have been derelict for many years . |
| 11 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An itch of fascination at this utterly different , aberrant creature twisted within Lexandro , into rage — at the sly , inhuman intelligence which must have been responsible for the loss of those brave champions of Humanity who now lay lifeless in caskets . |
| 14 | Where there were departures from the common pattern special circumstances could often be identified which might have been responsible for the deviation . |
| 15 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 16 | The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system . |
| 17 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 18 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
| 19 | Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies . |
| 20 | The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement . |
| 21 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 22 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 23 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 24 | For a minute she had believed she might have been responsible for the change in his life , but it was n't her but Maria Luisa . |
| 25 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 26 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 27 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 28 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 29 | If he had spoken of forgiving , or pitying , or even loving , she would have been ready for him , but to be needed was something she had not looked for . |
| 30 | His face was so unguarded that if she had not loved him as much she would have been afraid for him . |