Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 2 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 3 | Such would obviously be so in the case of a binding compromise ; but even where there is no consideration for the payment , it may have been made to close the transaction and so be irrecoverable . |
| 4 | Mozart 's church music — written as part of his duties — includes five more short Masses , of which K.262 is the most substantial : it may have been written for the Easter celebrations at the cathedral in 1776 . |
| 5 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 6 | I think it may have been said before . |
| 7 | Or again it may have been based upon an assumption : for example , ‘ As there is an effective alternative , I refuse to have a blood transfusion . ’ |
| 8 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 9 | And , of course , it may have been done . |
| 10 | However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence . |
| 11 | Later it may have been incorporated into an enormous palace compound covering a wide swath of the city |
| 12 | It may have been composed by Benedikt Schak ( 1758–1826 ) and subsequently orchestrated by Mozart . |
| 13 | But now it 's thought it may have been plundered from the pension fund , and passed to Phusi through an intermediate company . |
| 14 | It may have been noted that I placed sexual offences against children among cases which may have effect . |
| 15 | it may have been referred to a higher court . |
| 16 | It may have been renewed . |
| 17 | It may have been presented to the Queen in order to show her something of the impact that Protestantism had made in Italy . |
| 18 | Often many years elapsed before the village farmers built their new houses , however inconvenient it may have been to live in the centre of the parish and to farm on the boundaries . |
| 19 | This representation of Mithra appears to have been derived from Egyptian art , and it has been suggested that it may have been influenced by the bandages of mummified corpses . |
| 20 | Known as sensori neural deafness , it may have been called nerve deafness , perceptive deafness , inner ear deafness , presbyacusis — but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss , at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics . |
| 21 | The nature-god pendant found at Aigina looks very much like Middle Minoan III work , dating from about 1600 BC ; it may have been robbed from the Chrysolakkos tomb at Mallia in antiquity . |
| 22 | We hope that people trying to read the shell-growth record will now be aware that part of it may have been erased . |
| 23 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 24 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 25 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 26 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 27 | Even where a trustee has misappropriated trust property the fund may still preserve its identity , and , so long as it can be identified , the rights of the beneficiaries will attach to the fund into whatever form it may have been converted by him . |
| 28 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 29 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 30 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |