Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 2 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 3 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 6 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 9 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 15 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 16 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 17 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 18 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 19 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 20 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 21 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 22 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 23 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | To Paykel , it would have been considered a positive event or ‘ entrance ’ event which he would therefore not expect to correlate with depression . |
| 29 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |
| 30 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |