Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 2 | The people of England should have been made aware of the significance of the match . |
| 3 | By this stage each party contacted should have been made aware of the firm 's professional relationship with the client and the confidentiality and sensitivity of any client information discussed . |
| 4 | Churning is not good for buyers though : endowments are meant to be long-term investments , and it should have been made clear to you when you bought the policy that you would lose out if you cashed in before the end of the agreed term , which is typically , 25 years . |
| 5 | The first point to make is that this is the same book as originally published in 1974 and retrospectively numbered ‘ 36 ’ in the series — we feel this should have been made clear by titling it ‘ Revised Edition ’ in the style previously followed . |
| 6 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 7 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 8 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 9 | That he should have been proved wrong on a number of points should occasion no surprise . |
| 10 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 11 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 13 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 14 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 15 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 16 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 17 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 18 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 19 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 20 | He presumed the dog must have been left alone in the house . |
| 21 | The Gamay vines must have been planted prior to 1948 . |
| 22 | One of the reasons why it might have been felt necessary in the field-worker 's presence to define the neighbourhood role as primarily crime control is because , like community relations , the Neighbourhood Unit is aware that the section police see them as having an easy duty . |
| 23 | Zhu was reportedly dismissed because of his links with liberal policies , and might have been held responsible for the participation of union members in the pro-democracy protests of May and June . |
| 24 | The implicit monarchical themes may also have their own republican counterparts , which could have been made explicit in further contexts . |
| 25 | The CPSU could have been considered analogous to a liberal democratic party in some limited respects . |
| 26 | Architecture clearly reflects the meeting of Muslim and ethnic Chinese : the tiled , domed mausoleum of the King of Hami ( above left ) could have been transported whole from the Middle East . |
| 27 | But admitted Marc could have been knocked unconscious before the fire . |
| 28 | These salt concentrations may have been increased due to air pollution and ‘ salty ’ mortar used during earlier restoration work . |
| 29 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 30 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |