Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 2 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 5 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 6 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 7 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 8 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |
| 9 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 10 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 11 | ‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark . |
| 12 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |