Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] been [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a retailer may have been refused access to a selective distribution network on grounds which his lawyers advise the retailer are inadequate . |
| 2 | The bones of a small rodent species eaten by a small owl are more likely to be broken than the bones of the same rodent species eaten by a larger owl , even though in both cases the rodent may have been swallowed whole . |
| 3 | With a 5% exclusion clause only one of these parties would have been granted representation , and the complex process of forming a government would have been much less painful . |
| 4 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 5 | A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed . |
| 6 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 7 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 8 | One reason the 1989 regulations were passed was to satisfy the United States as to the protection offered in the United Kingdom , otherwise there might have been some doubt as to whether topographies derived from the United Kingdom would have been afforded protection in the United States . |
| 9 | Michael Green of Carlton may have won the London daily franchise from Thames and Andrew Quinn may have been appointed head of ITV 's scheduling , but they still have everything to prove . |
| 10 | Many Bristol graduates will have been taught music by Professor Ray Warren but I wonder how many have been taught mathematics by him ? |
| 11 | Certainly some of the earlier building activity may have been misplaced effort . |