Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 2 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 3 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 4 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 6 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |
| 7 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 8 | There must have been concentrations of seal makers at the great temple centres , serving the larger populations of the towns . |
| 9 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 10 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 11 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 12 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 13 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 14 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet Gorbachev emphasized that while there might have been misunderstandings between him and Pavlov there were no essential differences between them . |
| 15 | Apart from the Stones ' fingerprints , there might have been others on the paper , but the forensic lab liked all their bits and pieces presented in nice , clean polythene bags . |
| 16 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 17 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 18 | The only influence on their choice could have been differences in the credit terms . |
| 19 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 20 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 21 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 22 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 23 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
| 24 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 25 | Both Offa 's dislike of the men of Kent and the extent of the territory now coming under his control may have been factors in the situation in the late 780s , but in 798 Coenwulf and Leo were deploying these arguments selectively and in a way which compromises their validity as single explanations of what was probably a complex situation . |
| 26 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 27 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 28 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 29 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 30 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |