Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That must have been awful for him because he loves his food . |
| 2 | That must have been fun for her . |
| 3 | Chamberlain pointed out that the relationship between maturity and volume was not monotonic , with volume initially increasing , and then decreasing as delivery became imminent , and this may have been responsible for the positive relationship . |
| 4 | This may have been fine for early disposable e-mail , but as office systems of all kinds have developed into tools to create , store , retrieve and delete the only copy of more substantial record types , it is necessary to institute more organised retention methods . |
| 5 | This must have been irksome for them , but Mrs Webster accepted it as her war work with good grace . |
| 6 | Just a few months ago walking like this would have been impossible for 12 year old Ashley Smith . |
| 7 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 8 | That would have been impossible for the Shah . |
| 9 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 10 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 11 | ‘ A normal baby arrives head first to make childbirth as easy as possible — and even that would have been difficult for her , given her narrow pelvis — You do know what and where a pelvis is , I hope , McAllister ? ’ |
| 12 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |