Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 5 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 6 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 7 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 9 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 10 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 11 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 12 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 13 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 14 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 15 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 16 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 17 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 18 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 19 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 20 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 21 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |
| 22 | Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use . |
| 23 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 24 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 25 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 26 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 27 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
| 28 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 29 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 30 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |