Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 2 | Erm , if of course you 're heavily into recycling , er , what you can do is put the whole pad inside er , the envelope and use a . |
| 3 | But I do n't like being called a funking animal by a load of nonces who know nothing about me . ’ |
| 4 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |
| 5 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 7 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 8 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 9 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 10 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 11 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 12 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 13 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 14 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 15 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 18 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 19 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 20 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 21 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 22 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 23 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 24 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 25 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 26 | Also , it later transpired , the scheme would have been doomed to disappointment , because we would n't have been granted the necessary planning permission for change of use . |
| 27 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 28 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | According to Dore ( 1979 ) the later that capitalist development occurs the less likely there will have been established a prior system of free wage labour in a capitalist agricultural sector . |