Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |
| 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 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 9 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 13 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 14 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 15 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 16 | According to Dore ( 1979 ) the later that capitalist development occurs the less likely there will have been established a prior system of free wage labour in a capitalist agricultural sector . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 19 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 20 | To Paykel , it would have been considered a positive event or ‘ entrance ’ event which he would therefore not expect to correlate with depression . |
| 21 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |
| 22 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |
| 23 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 24 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 25 | If her father played the tape of her conversation , as inevitably he would , then , whatever the outcome , their relationship would have been dealt an overwhelming blow , one , she was sure , that could never be overcome . |
| 26 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 27 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |