Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 32 | However such power and influence should have been balanced by checks built in to protect those falling foul of an individual BAT leader . |
| 33 | He says the precinct should have been covered over years ago . |
| 34 | In the case of a restricted licence , the LA must revoke it if , twice within a five-year period , the holder is found guilty of carrying goods which should have been covered by a standard or standard international licence . |
| 35 | Admittedly , a No from the Bosnian Serbs should not be considered as an unequivocal , irreversible rejection of the peace plan , any more than a Yes should have been regarded as a wholehearted acceptance of it . |
| 36 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |
| 37 | Such suicides are nearly always preventable and many of those in despair should have been moved to hospital for treatment or received active medical help while in prison . |
| 38 | Everything she had thrown in Luke 's direction should have been transferred to Rob , really . |
| 39 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 40 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 41 | If there is a difference , ordinary managers should have been sacked by now . |
| 42 | Kwik Save also prosecuted for offering Danish blue cheese which was unfit because of its bacteria count , and having food on sale at temperatures of up to 20 degrees which should have been stored at a maximum of eight degrees centigrade . |
| 43 | Baffled , he scratched his greasy white hair and wondered what it could be and why it should have been stored in a beer keg . |
| 44 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 45 | On behalf of the applicant , Mr. Fitzgerald submitted that a death due to ‘ natural causes ’ in the sense that it was caused by some naturally occurring disease , nevertheless becomes ‘ an unnatural death ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) when it could and should have been prevented by the performance by some other person or authority of a duty owed by them to the deceased . |
| 46 | To is required with the infinitive in order to represent this movement from a before-position when the event was not yet realized — at which point , according to the speaker , it could and perhaps should have been prevented from occurring — to an after-position corresponding to its actual realization . |
| 47 | It was argued that he should have been sentenced to a term of detention in a young offender institution , and that he did not qualify for a custodial sentence for that purpose under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) . |
| 48 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 49 | Why Letcombe should have been sentenced to death is as much a mystery now as it was then . |
| 50 | Tax on the remaining £1,640 should have been charged at the basic rate of 25 per cent , which would make your tax bill £410 . |
| 51 | Once the contractor is satisfied that a sub-contractor holds a valid certificate no further inspection is necessary unless : ( a ) The date of expiry , which should have been noted in the builder 's records , has passed . |
| 52 | We know that each of these groups contained a small minority of emigres , and that the Cossack Cavalry Corps in addition contained nearly 1000 Germans who , under the 1929 Geneva Convention on PoWs , should have been repatriated to Germany . |
| 53 | As confirmation was not forthcoming , PW was unable to conclude whether Perfect Information was an associated undertaking at 31 March 1992 and should have been treated as such at 31 March 1991 . |
| 54 | She should have been treated in the same way that an older man would be dealt with for corrupting a young girl . |
| 55 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 56 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 57 | If , however , they were too pessimistic this should have been belied in the subsequent years since the Nigerian Indigenization Decree of 1972 , implemented from February 1974 , which reserved twenty-six activities in large-scale industry exclusively for Nigerian ownership ; foreign companies operating in these businesses had to sell out . |
| 58 | According to BR 's director of operational standards , Terence Worrell , it should have been re-evaluated before being brought into use . |
| 59 | Others had their cattle seized by Neville 's men until they paid extortionate fines , although their cases should have been heard before the king 's judges . |
| 60 | The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen . |