Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat
2 See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face
3 There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece …
4 And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly .
5 Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier .
6 Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer .
7 SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case .
8 If Piggy had not told Ralph his nickname in the beginning he would not have been made a ridicule of before the vote .
9 In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something .
10 Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 .
11 Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman .
12 Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park .
13 The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle .
14 ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’
15 ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’
16 The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape .
17 Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there .
18 Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday .
19 If I had had to justify my work in terms of clinical benefits before I started it , I would never have been given a licence .
20 This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation .
21 ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’
22 You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT .
23 She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms .
24 He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal .
25 Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack .
26 and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal .
27 You must be an assessor of the DC to register your decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) .
28 No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be an assessor of the DC to register a decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) .
29 I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that .
30 By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage .
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