Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Commissioners , after considering the relevant facts , in particular that the accounts should have been submitted three or four years previously , awarded each company a penalty of £2,000 . |
| 2 | These salt concentrations may have been increased due to air pollution and ‘ salty ’ mortar used during earlier restoration work . |
| 3 | But Tory councillor Peter Jones claimed last night that funds should have been made available . |
| 4 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 5 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 6 | Thirty years from now the words will have been wiped clean by the sun and sea that inspired them . |
| 7 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 8 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 9 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 10 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 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 | These common boundaries will have been digitized separated , and so will not , therefore , coincide exactly . |
| 13 | In Sweden , sulphur dioxide emissions will have been reduced 65 per cent between 1980 and 1995 , 45 per cent by 1985 . |
| 14 | The Gamay vines must have been planted prior to 1948 . |
| 15 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |
| 16 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 17 | Adults would have been thought foolish to take part in what were now only infantile amusements . |
| 18 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
| 19 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 20 | Hence , the argument runs , even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services . |