Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This film must have been given an ‘ A ’ certificate by the censors but adults were easily persuaded to ‘ take us in , please , mister . ’ |
| 2 | Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use . |
| 3 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 4 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 5 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 6 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 7 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 8 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 11 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 12 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |
| 13 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 14 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 15 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 16 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 17 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 18 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Not only are there examples of extreme rarity , a large ‘ Christ driving the money changers from the temple ’ in coloured chalk by Jacopo Bassano , two handsome brush drawings by Carpaccio , a ‘ Thebaid ’ by Costa , the only drawing which can be attributed with any reason to Desiderio da Settignano , Pordenone 's superb red chalk ‘ Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr ’ , drawn in competition with Titian and Palma Vecchio , which comes from Chatsworth and should never have been allowed an export licence from Britain , Albert Cuyp 's delightful ‘ Milkmaid ’ , Saenredam 's ‘ Choir and north ambulatory of the Church of Saint Bavo , Haarlem ’ , Altdorfer 's ‘ Christ carrying the cross ’ , but also many of great beauty , Turner 's finished watercolour ‘ Long Ship lighthouse , Land 's End ’ , the anonymous Swiss ( Bernese ? ) |
| 22 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 23 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 24 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |