Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [been] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of nerves ( which should have been largely removed through practice examinations ) , resolve to follow a fixed routine during the examination . |
| 2 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 3 | Without it I should have been hopelessly lost . |
| 4 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 5 | It should have been substantially increased , as it is a useful contribution to the income of retired households at this time of year . |
| 6 | Surely I should have been better armed against the deceits of the devil . |
| 7 | As there is no obvious reason why the reservoir should have been adversely affected in the second well , more study is clearly needed in order to understand the distribution of these cements . |
| 8 | Some of those who had commented on the draft of the new programme , Gorbachev revealed , thought the term should have been entirely removed ; others , on the contrary , thought it should have been dealt with at greater length . |
| 9 | Rather , it identifies the way in which the decision as to who should operate the telescope was taken and reports that many university astronomers felt the possibility of alternative organisational arrangements should have been publicly debated . |
| 10 | Since partial interpretations did not have to be kept distinct over stretches longer than two words the combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses should have been considerably reduced . |
| 11 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 12 | More important is the wider summer market , which should have been fully booked by mid-May ; it was not . |
| 13 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 14 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 15 | With three years to make your mark , your wife 's belly should have been permanently swollen . ’ |
| 16 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |
| 17 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 18 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 19 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 20 | At present , the woman must have been continuously employed by the same employer for two years . |
| 21 | I am sure that Alec Clegg must have been heavily influenced in , my favour by Basil , for I remember a very inconsequential performance before the Committee , caused more by nerves and fatigue rather than indifference . |
| 22 | It must have been either forged or welded to the cap or fitted hot and allowed to cool into position . |
| 23 | Since a sentence was the basis for execution , and the sentence was pronounced inter partes , execution too must have been similarly limited . |
| 24 | Understandably outraged by the revelations that colleagues had been implicated , however unwittingly , in the notorious Project Camelot , linked with CIA activities in Cambodia , American Anthropologists have often tended to assume that those working in ‘ colonial situations ’ elsewhere must have been similarly employed as , in effect , government agents . |
| 25 | Evidently the section breaker at Selby Road , to separate the two undertakings , must have been temporarily bridged and current drawn from Croydon since the line opened without ceremony immediately following receipt of the certificate . |
| 26 | You must have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege to approve a package and must have been previously nominated by the package manager . |
| 27 | any targets or standards of performance must have been previously agreed between employee and superior , or team colleagues , and be seen to be both sensible and reasonable |
| 28 | The sentences must have been previously drilled and mastered . |
| 29 | Roland 's xeroxes were cleaner and clearer than the faded coppery-grey script of the originals ; indeed the copy-ink had a black and gleaming freshness , the machine 's rollers must have been newly inked . |
| 30 | Since culture of PBL in the presence of cycloheximide greatly reduced ELISA index values ( mean 0.87 [ 0.11 ] ) , the antibodies detected must have been newly synthesised . |