Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 2 | community charge payment should have been abolished completely this year . |
| 3 | The flat , known in 1978 as a Red Brigades hideout , had been extensively searched at the time by all the security services , and it was suggested that the letters might have been planted there more recently to embarrass the government , particularly Andreotti ( now Prime Minister again ) and Cossiga ( Interior Minister in 1978 ) , who had held out against negotiating with the Red Brigades . |
| 4 | This is the " never knowingly undersold " strategy , by which the incumbent promises to reduce the price ex post should the consumer find that the good could have been obtained elsewhere more cheaply . |
| 5 | The cloth could have been placed there half an hour or so later . ’ |
| 6 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 7 | When William the Conqueror came to ‘ reform ’ the local church , that transformation may have been based as much on political as doctrinal and ritual considerations . |
| 8 | Their treatment of those who held land from them may have been prompted as much by economic motives as by political or psychological ones . |
| 9 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 10 | For example , IFS estimate that if the Department of Social Security had used the European Commission methodology , which uses expenditure rather than income , then in 1985 an extra 3.4 million people would have been found below half the national average . |