Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that they were all Lutheran , but really there is no reason why they should not have been a mix Lutheran , possibly Calvinist , and Roman Catholic . |
| 3 | ‘ It was an absolutely ridiculous decision , ’ said Kelly , who has maintained all along that there should not have been a re-match . |
| 4 | To judge by the piles of broken stone , chunks of gargoyle , carved oak , black-brown and shot with wormholes , the upper chamber must once have been a workshop but was now a dump for unwanted Cathedral tat . |
| 5 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 6 | Peering out , I could see that there must once have been a garden or kail-yard between the cottage and the cliff ; now the tumbledown wall enclosed nothing but a tangle of brambles and wild roses almost hiding a garden hut . |
| 7 | Ensuring the water supply for the towns during the dry Cretan summers must always have been a problem . |
| 8 | There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 9 | The company 's satisfaction with labour relations at Bridgend in South Wales must also have been a factor in the decision to build a £750m engine plant there . |
| 10 | Yet the very need for such public show-trials , apparently highlighting the fragility of the Soviet Union , its vulnerability to fascist and capitalist subversion , must inevitably have been a cause of concern and growing disquiet . |
| 11 | They see it as the ultimate proof that there must originally have been a designer , not a blind watchmaker but a far-sighted supernatural watchmaker . |
| 12 | It is very evidently a thorough piece of work ; the judgements seem well justified , and the whole exercise must surely have been a labour of love . |
| 13 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 14 | The fiscal year to December 31 1992 should actually have been a year of consolidation . |
| 15 | That message , delivered to you in Kefalov , may not have been a boast but a warning . |
| 16 | A rather elaborate superstructure consisted of a bridge , saloon , a dining-room and what may or may not have been a galley . |
| 17 | Stuart McCall may not have been a second Peter Reid , Kevin Richardson was hardly another Paul Bracewell and Neil McDonald was very much a poor man 's Colin Harvey , but all three were far more constructive than the people who have replaced them . |
| 18 | William may or may not have been a rogue and charlatan ; there are said to be many such in Panama , which as a crossroads for the modern world radiates a special magnetism for crews of ne'er-do-wells . |
| 19 | The supply of metal may not have been a problem if supplies of scrap were plentiful and if there was a continuous re-cycling of the raw materials . |
| 20 | Their romance may or may not have been a whirlwind one . |
| 21 | Thirdly , Buckingham may not have been a traitor but he undoubtedly entertained treasonable thoughts , perhaps was a secret Templar . |
| 22 | Gagnon and Simon suggest that : ‘ To earlier societies it may not have been a need to constrain severely the powerful sexual impulse in order to maintain social stability or limit inherently anti-social force , but rather a matter of having to invent an importance for sexuality' . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 24 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 25 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 26 | Instead his lips twitched slightly in what might or might not have been a smile . |
| 27 | If I say it was wonderfully exciting , you will wonder when I am going to do it again , and if I say it was a mistake , which it was , you are going to ask me under what circumstances it might not have been a mistake . ’ |
| 28 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
| 29 | We were in a street , the street so wide and the houses so distant across the other side that it might not have been a street at all ; and the houses lay low with gaps between them , so that the sky filled a large part of the picture . |
| 30 | They were in another disused , rubble-filled space which might once have been a yard or garden . |