Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 5 | If Piggy had not told Ralph his nickname in the beginning he would not have been made a ridicule of before the vote . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 8 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 16 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 24 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 25 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 26 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 27 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 28 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 29 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 30 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |