Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand . |
| 2 | It should have been played by some very good supporting character actress . ’ |
| 3 | There is , of course , no reason why Baldwin should have been influenced by one motive to the exclusion of others . |
| 4 | Is it not totally unacceptable that when only 13 questions were answered on Welsh matters , four of them should have been asked by Hon. Members with English constituencies and that most of the questions were answered by a Member representing an English constituency ? |
| 5 | Also exempt would be a contract which could or should have been governed by one of the systems of law in the UK , where s 27(2) ( b ) does not apply , and the parties have chosen a foreign proper law for a genuine reason other than evasion of the UCTA ( eg because the other party was a foreigner who insisted on using the law of his own jurisdiction as the governing law of the contract ) . |
| 6 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 7 | What should have been produced by 4 million workers needed 6.7 million to be manufactured , i.e. per capita productivity was more than 50% below the planned level . |
| 8 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 9 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 10 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 11 | Some of its members , namely Barry , Brodrick , Ashpitel , Jones and Lamb , must have been motivated by pure self-interest , as they themselves produce buildings in what they were saying was the hated Gothic style . |
| 12 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 13 | must have been threaded by some child . |
| 14 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 15 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 16 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 17 | Leland 's gloomy view of Droitwich must have been prompted by visual symptoms — the foul streets and the sickly faces he encountered in them : ‘ the people that be about the fornacis be very ille colorid ’ . |
| 18 | In 1849 even Richard Owen hinted briefly that the modifications of the vertebrate archetype might have been unfolded by non-miraculous causes : |
| 19 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 20 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 21 | A half-mile south of the bridge the first French staff officers were rifling the mail in Charleroi 's post office in search of letters which might have been posted by Allied officers and thus provide clues of British or Prussian plans . |
| 22 | Even so , if the enthusiasts for the citizenship ideal sought comfort from this proliferation of interest against the background of a decline in party commitment , they might have been chastened by one reaction to the report of the Speaker 's Commission . |
| 23 | At one time — probably at any time between the Restoration and , for a terminal date , the Second World War — those questions might have been rejected by literate folk as quite foolish and empty ; because Horace has been , after all , almost an honorary Briton , so pervasive is his cultural presence . |
| 24 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 25 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 26 | This suggests that the violence might have been caused by these high hormone levels , not conditioning . |
| 27 | Defence experts indicated that the incident , which occurred during naval exercises some 80 miles west of Izmir , might have been caused by excessive stress among junior officers prompted by a long spell at sea . |
| 28 | The higher skin damage measurement in the lower layer indicates that loss circulation material possibly was stuck in the producing rock , a condition that might have been caused by initial drilling operating practices , says Chris Drysdale , Well Evaluation group leader . |
| 29 | The move came amid reports that Iraq 's success in initiating its post-war reconstruction programme might have been assisted by systematic sanctions-busting by some countries . |
| 30 | What might have been anticipated by some as a passage of tedious monotony was welcomed by Gould as an opportunity lull of excitement and discovery . |