Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [adj] for [art] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 7 | It must have been difficult for the teachers to organize things even before the arrival of the evacuees , who had problems of their own , of course , adjusting to a major change in lifestyle . |
| 8 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 11 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |
| 12 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 13 | Nor do I recognise the judges who can discriminate between frivolous and genuine employers in the Appeal Court ruling that dock strikes might have been illegal for the past 40 years . |
| 14 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 15 | Where there were departures from the common pattern special circumstances could often be identified which might have been responsible for the deviation . |
| 16 | Mujjaddedi had told media correspondents on May 31 that Hekmatyar 's men might have been responsible for the rocket attack on his aircraft on May 30 [ see p. 38915 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It might have been OK for the prairies , but bottom was n't low enough to cope with the hills of Nanaimo . |
| 19 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 20 | Such a theory might have been tailor-made for the justification of the housebound mother . |
| 21 | Government agents were suspected , but it was also realised that a freelance group could have been responsible for the killings . |
| 22 | ‘ They could have been responsible for the deaths of Cosmas and Damien , ’ I added . |
| 23 | Whilst the weather could have been kinder for the photographers wishing to capture the splendid liveries of the trams , both in the sheds and on the extensive outdoor system , we managed to dodge the couple of showers and visited the considerable number of preserved vehicles and small exhibits . |
| 24 | The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget . |
| 25 | The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Crash investigators believe fractured pins may have been responsible for the El Al cargo jet crash . |
| 29 | A police spokesman said a third car — believed to be a black Citroen — may have been responsible for the accident . |
| 30 | The Gulf War may have been responsible for the postponement of the finals of the Head/Isrotel/Tennis World tournament , which were due to be staged at the end of 1990 , for one year , but it certainly did n't dampen the enjoyment of the 12 regional winners who eventually took off for Eliat at the end of November 1991 . |