Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These salt concentrations may have been increased due to air pollution and ‘ salty ’ mortar used during earlier restoration work .
2 But Tory councillor Peter Jones claimed last night that funds should have been made available .
3 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 ) .
4 Thirty years from now the words will have been wiped clean by the sun and sea that inspired them .
5 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 .
6 These common boundaries will have been digitized separated , and so will not , therefore , coincide exactly .
7 The Gamay vines must have been planted prior to 1948 .
8 The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts .
9 When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software .
10 Adults would have been thought foolish to take part in what were now only infantile amusements .
11 Nicholas believed that the best thing non-Russians could do was become Russian .
12 Hence , the argument runs , even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services .
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