Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 2 | I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front . |
| 3 | Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice . |
| 4 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 5 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 6 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 7 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 8 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 9 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 10 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 11 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 12 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 13 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 14 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |
| 15 | Mr Parker added that while TV might have been substituted for the Beano and the Dandy , perennial favourite authors , such as Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl , were still very important to young people in Ulster . |
| 16 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 17 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 18 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 19 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 20 | I was glad he chose to wear it , for otherwise , in his shirt-sleeves and braces walking between us , it could have been mistaken for an arrest or at least a ‘ helping with inquiries ’ and the last thing I wanted was a street riot . |
| 21 | After watching feeble jokes about Norma Major 's voting intentions and Neil Kinnock 's image , I wished it could have been monitored for an injection of humour . |
| 22 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 23 | The folly was in failing to realise that more could have been achieved for the nation , within the EEC , by protecting regional interests , than could possibly be achieved for the regions by protecting national interests . |
| 24 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 25 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
| 26 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 27 | Like the rest of the staff , he wore a burgundy-coloured uniform although , apart from his name tag , it could have been taken for a regular formal suit . |
| 28 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 29 | He looks like a leader , and his name could have been invented for a passport to cross the maze of ethnic boundaries . |
| 30 | The Chairman of the Bench said Lord Apsley could have been imprisoned for the offence . |