Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have been made quite clear to you from the beginning that MI5 's word on this would be final . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 4 | community charge payment should have been abolished completely this year . |
| 5 | The only problem I have with all this hectic activity is that the concept of funk-metal should have been buried under 20 feet of hyper dangerous asbestos padding before it was permitted to draw its first breath . |
| 6 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 7 | According to this the picture must have been painted about 1588 , with which the style and the age of the sitter agree . |
| 8 | It was n't my blood , so he must have been bleeding as well |
| 9 | Some of the children must have been taken on subsequent to harrowing , tearful , interviews with mothers with babies in arms , or even the children themselves . |
| 10 | Well , it was n't so funny for Arnold Palmer : it must have been blowing over forty miles-per-hour , and we 're playing with Roberto de Vicenzo and Max Faulkner in the afternoon . |
| 11 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 12 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 13 | The whole must have been rewritten about five times . |
| 14 | But the awareness of what might have been had not some stalwart Cornishman come along the beach in the nick of time and the thought of the possible after-effects on both Celia and Liza haunted him . |
| 15 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An occasion marked by a speech from the president himself , Peter Mead of Abbot Mead Vickers , which was noticeably defensive although a few of the jokes might have been considered mildly offensive by one or two sections of society ( indicating that the IPA , like kindred bodies , is still predominantly white , male and middle-class ) . |
| 18 | The book is firmly rooted in the olden , and golden days of classical physical chemistry and could have been written circa 1960 — perhaps it was . |
| 19 | It is hard to imagine how the matter could have been handled less adeptly . |
| 20 | Nobody with such a disease could have been training so hard and felt so well . |
| 21 | A large proportion had substantial additionality , although some projects could have been supported by other than public-sector funds , bearing in mind that UDG is supposed to be a last-resort lender . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The cloth could have been placed there half an hour or so later . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In other words , crazy though it sounds , players could have been picked under one set of laws to play under another . |
| 26 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The memory task may have been made inappropriately difficult by preventing subjects from using strategies such as mentally retracing the route and scoring as correct memories only aspects of the situation which could not have been provided from previous knowledge . |
| 29 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |
| 30 | Pregnancies of single mothers may have been made less unfavourable by housing legislation ( Ineichen 1972 ) . |