Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory .
2 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
3 Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension .
4 I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence .
5 I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done .
6 On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’
7 ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’
8 If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge .
9 We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here .
10 Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy .
11 Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing :
12 If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable .
13 In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering .
14 A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van .
15 I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him .
16 If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’
17 Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use .
18 You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult .
19 Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury .
20 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 .
21 The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products .
22 If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle .
23 Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) .
24 Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever .
25 ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni .
26 If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’
27 I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back .
28 As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government .
29 The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire .
30 To Paykel , it would have been considered a positive event or ‘ entrance ’ event which he would therefore not expect to correlate with depression .
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