Example sentences of "it [modal v] have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 2 | It may have been harder for girls from the Canongate to find such jobs ( the survivors were all from slightly more prosperous backgrounds ) . |
| 3 | That it may have been difficult for members to attend area sessions , should not rule out the possibility of encouraging collaboration among groups of local boards . |
| 4 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 8 | It must have been creepy for you , going into that empty house and finding something nasty behind the door … hey , that 'd make a title , would n't it ? |
| 9 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 10 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 11 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 12 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 13 | It must have been terrible for him . |
| 14 | It must have been terrible for you all these years , but what a day it 'll be when Terry comes home , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 15 | It must have been terrible for her gran , wanting to explain about the Italian connection , and being unable to . |
| 16 | ‘ It must have been terrible for you when they told you there was nothing more they could do , ’ Juliet said quickly . |
| 17 | ‘ Nico , it must have been — it must have been terrible for you , loving her and losing her . |
| 18 | It must have been worse for Charlie . |
| 19 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 21 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 22 | It must have been inconvenient for everyone . |
| 23 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 24 | It must have been lonely for him . |
| 25 | It must have been scary for you . |
| 26 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 27 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 28 | It must have been horrible for her . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been difficult for you , hiding Egan when Place was living with his sister . ’ |