Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] been [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand . |
| 2 | It should have been played by some very good supporting character actress . ’ |
| 3 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 4 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 5 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 6 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 7 | must have been threaded by some child . |
| 8 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 9 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 10 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 11 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 12 | This suggests that the violence might have been caused by these high hormone levels , not conditioning . |
| 13 | What might have been anticipated by some as a passage of tedious monotony was welcomed by Gould as an opportunity lull of excitement and discovery . |
| 14 | ‘ Well sir , we figured that the beer mats might have been stolen by some rival bar-owner . |
| 15 | His staff was much too small to give a reasonable teaching course , and the absence of serious opposition that might have been provided by another English veterinary school meant there was no great stimulus to change . |
| 16 | Most of these expensive incidents might have been avoided by this drill . |
| 17 | ‘ It could have been caused by some sort of disaster or accident . |
| 18 | Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer , recalled the first speech given by a new factory director which could have been given by any Romanian middle-ranking cynical conformist when put in charge of an operation by an arbitrary decision from the top . |
| 19 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
| 20 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 21 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 22 | Actually , the experiment is not perfect because , strictly speaking , Andersson only showed that the number of nests on a male 's territory was related to tail length ; the eggs could have been fertilized by another male , and the female then attracted to the territory of a male with a longer tail . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |
| 24 | The course provided tremendous excitement and thanks largely to the 18th hole I doubt whether it could have been topped by any course in the country . |
| 25 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 26 | It could have been sharpened by any straight blade in the kingdom . ’ |
| 27 | His prejudiced expectations of orientalism were confounded by restrained furnishings which could have been chosen by any Home Counties newly-wed and an offer not of tea but of gin . |
| 28 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 29 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 30 | It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects . |