Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] been [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 2 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 3 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 6 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 7 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 8 | Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals . |
| 9 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 10 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 11 | The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein . |
| 12 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 14 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 15 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 16 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |
| 17 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 18 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 19 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 20 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 21 | Judging from the number of Londoners who ended by having to pay more than they were initially assessed for , this refrain could have been sung a bit too often to be convincing . |
| 22 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 23 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 24 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 25 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 26 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 27 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 28 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 29 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 30 | 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 . |