Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 2 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 3 | Traditionally the first window should have been opened this morning . |
| 4 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 5 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 6 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 7 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 8 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 9 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 10 | ‘ Even if there was no restoration going on the castle fire service should have been informed this stuff was being stored in the chapel . ’ |
| 11 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 12 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 13 | He is hopeful , therefore , that notice will have been taken this side of the Atlantic , not only by Augusta National at the Masters , but also by the United States Golf Association , who are the governing body of the American Open , and the United States PGA , with a mind to the PGA Championship . |
| 14 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 15 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 16 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 17 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 18 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 19 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 20 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 21 | I do n't believe that with any union this company would have been cracked any quicker . |
| 22 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 23 | Had Ken not been beset by peculiarly worrying tours as England manager/coach , that small family might have been spared such early grief . |
| 24 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |