Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
2 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |
3 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
4 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
5 | Because private accommodation is usually paid a month at a time , as compared to a term in advance in halls of residence , it 's often tempting to lull oneself into a false sense of secure finances , spending money that should have been put aside for the rent . |
6 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
7 | Going into the bedroom again she put on the oatmeal dress which might have been bought yesterday for fit . |
8 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
9 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
10 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
11 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
12 | Such trading emporia may have been established purely for the profit of the king and the servicing of his estates . |
13 | Such weaponry may have been designed principally for warfare and combat , yet the existence of wild animal bones on settlements , especially deer , points to hunting being a means of supplementing the diet ; yet what was used to bring down such game ? |
14 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
15 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
16 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |