Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few will quarrel with the general principle that such steps should have been taken in Ulster . |
| 2 | Under the complaints procedure action should have been taken within 20 working days . |
| 3 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 4 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |
| 5 | What sh happened yesterday actually was , that the big flag on the new green , should have been taken out . |
| 6 | The big flag should have been taken off the the new green and it was n't . |
| 7 | Saddam Hussein 's decision , in compliance with UN Resolutions 664 , 667 and 674 [ see pp. 37639 ; 37759 ] , was cautiously welcomed by US President Bush , who emphasized , however , that " no single hostage should have been taken in the first place " . |
| 8 | It is arguable that the opportunity should have been taken to deal with this matter by way of criminal penalties . |
| 9 | Trevors parents say their son should have been taken to hospital straight away , not left in pain for two hours . |
| 10 | His father , John Murphy , said he should have been taken to Durham Prison , where medical treatment which he said his son needed was available if necessary . |
| 11 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 12 | If not during a period , then adequate contraceptive measures must have been taken since the last period , such as the pill , or sheath , or cap with spermicide , used on every occasion . |
| 13 | But still I feel that one more thing of immense value must have been taken away with that wagon . |
| 14 | Some of the children must have been taken on subsequent to harrowing , tearful , interviews with mothers with babies in arms , or even the children themselves . |
| 15 | The photograph must have been taken from about twelve feet in front of her , where I surmise Summerchild 's desk was . |
| 16 | ‘ Then the drugs must have been taken then , unless it was during this morning when I unlocked the cupboard with Dr Rafaelo 's key to take out anti-inflammatory tablets for Señora Thorpe . ’ |
| 17 | They must have been taken illegally from the wild . |
| 18 | ‘ We lived at Witton Park between 1908 and 1914 so this must have been taken sometime during this period , ’ adds Mrs McAninly . |
| 19 | His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond . |
| 20 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 21 | The car is unnumbered , suggesting that its number might have been taken by a new Standard car . |
| 22 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 23 | If not twins , they might have been taken for brother and sister . |
| 24 | Dunkirk , Boulogne and Calais , through which British munitions and troops could pass in growing numbers , might have been taken at little cost during the Germans ' initial advance , now they would have to be fought for . |
| 25 | Had the attack been properly organized and coordinated , these vital heights might have been taken with little loss and the successes consolidated . |
| 26 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 27 | For a festival or a wedding feast a very similar dish , a gigot of mutton on a bed of sliced potatoes , might have been taken by Madame Escoffier senior to the village baker 's oven to cook . |
| 28 | I thought she might have been taken ill or had a fall or something . ’ |
| 29 | His eyes gleamed with what might have been taken for some inner illumination . |
| 30 | Action might have been taken two months ago . |