Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 8 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 9 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 12 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 13 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 14 | Without his aid , Edward was bound to negotiate for peace with Scotland ; but the best he could do was to conclude a thirteen-year truce in 1323 . |
| 15 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 16 | The best the Company could do was to send a 25-year old clerk and a force of 560 men off to Arcot , the capital of the Carnatic . |
| 17 | What I 'd like is to adopt a multi-racial child . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In a letter to Minnie , who seemed the natural recipient of the account she wished to give , she described how — when first she was taken ill Minnie , which I expect you have heard of from Miss Arabel , who I dare say was given a terrible fright as were we all , many despaired of her life but I did not and I am pleased to say my faith was justified . |
| 23 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 24 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 25 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 26 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 27 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 28 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |