Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] 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 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 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 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 9 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 10 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 11 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 12 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 13 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 16 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 19 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 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 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 23 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 24 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 25 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 26 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 27 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 30 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |