Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 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 | Measurement of internal friction such as those referred to above have been made for numerous polymers , and relaxation spectra for commonly used materials are listed in detail in the book by McCrum , read & Williams ( 1967 ) and in Ferry 's book . |
| 4 | The place was fairly close to his parents ' home and possibly had been chosen for that reason . |
| 5 | Strictly singulares were members of governors ' personal bodyguards , drawn from auxiliary regiments , but they may also have been employed for other duties . |
| 6 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |
| 7 | Specialized apparatus , which formerly had been made for specific purposes in the laboratory where it was required , could be obtained from manufacturers of scientific instruments , saving much time and labour . |
| 8 | The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched . |
| 9 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 12 | The election date announcement on April 12 included confirmation of postponement to an unspecified later date , for security reasons , of polling in Punjab ( where president 's rule was formally extended on March 13 for a further six months — see above for need to pass constitutional amendment allowing this before Parliament was dissolved ) , in Assam , where president 's rule was also extended on March 13 for a further six months from the end of May , and in Jammu and Kashmir , president 's rule there having been extended for six more months from March 3 , as approved by Parliament on Feb. 27 . |
| 13 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 14 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |