Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could say it should have been allowed many more to establish itself , but it was not a notable success . |
| 2 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 3 | It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi . |
| 4 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 5 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 6 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 7 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 8 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 9 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |