Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 2 | Once , she supposed , she must have been impressed by formal evening wear on good male bodies , but now it annoyed her . |
| 3 | Essentials that were not available locally and the growing desire for non-essentials must have been satisfied by surplus produce . |
| 4 | On many of the remaining farms emergency cover might have been available through other members of the family . |
| 5 | The degree of colonic bioavailability might have been insufficient for other reasons . |
| 6 | The deaths of patients who showed signs of decompensated liver disease before treatment might have been due to spontaneous progression of the disease and can not be linked unequivocally to the interferon treatment . |
| 7 | Her inner life or ‘ subjective feelings ‘ are irrelevant , although not non-existent ( indeed her inattention might have been due to severe toothache ) . |
| 8 | The situation was brought about by a combination of factors , with two in particular causing us the greatest damage : the postponement of the Registers of Land that might have been subject to contaminative use , and the fall in construction activity . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have been great in silent movies ’ . |
| 10 | In the face of mounting political and industrial unrest , Asquith may have been anxious to head-off further confrontation with feminists . |
| 11 | Major oceans would form the most long-lasting boundaries defining the provinces , but even these were not permanent , and migrations may have been possible in early geological periods when the distribution of land and sea was different . |
| 12 | The impact on the other producers , at least Sumitomo and Kawasaki , who did not oppose the merger , may have been counter-productive in stimulating continued aggressive expansion ’ ( Kaplan , 1975 , p. 151 ) . |
| 13 | In January 1644 , assessed at £1,000 , he pleaded for a mitigation ; his lack of money may have been due to personal extravagance at court as much as political troubles . |
| 14 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |
| 15 | However , Lawrence and his colleagues caution that the lack of appearance of ‘ new long-stay ’ patients in the hospitals may have been due to geographical drift of such patients to other hospitals . |
| 16 | If you had difficulty with this one , it may have been due to sexual stereotyping — i. |
| 17 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 18 | In Nigeria , saplings occupied by Pachysima aethiops have more leaves and branches and less attack than those without but , because the few larger workers have a ferocious sting and the habit of dropping from the crown , it is suggested that they may have been effective against large browsing mammals too ; the ants also attack nearby plants and keep the host 's leaves clear of debris and epiphyllae . |
| 19 | This idea of metempsychosis , or transmigration of souls , has only occasionally appeared in the West , in particular in the school of Pythagoras , which may have been subject to Eastern influences , since he was roughly contemporaneous with Buddha — and also with Zarathustra . |
| 20 | The two ADF receivers were working in the ADF mode at the time of the crash , though the No 1 unit may have been subject to intermittent electrical interruptions due to poorly soldered joints . |
| 21 | Getting into a state as a result of which someone died may have been reckless in ordinary language but there was a gap in time , a lack of contemporaneity , between the getting into the state and the victim 's death . |
| 22 | This may have been true of strict Evangelicals , particularly the Calvinists , the dissenting groups such as the Plymouth Brethren , but in the population of the cities where churchgoing had fallen steeply , fire and brimstone were losing their power to terrify . |
| 23 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 24 | Moscow may have been concerned in particular about the global and regional repercussions of a prolonged Iran-Iraq war and the opportunities this provided the West . |
| 25 | In this way the client begins to realize that their former ‘ resting state ’ may have been fraught with muscular tensions serving to exacerbate the general experience of anxiety and stress . |
| 26 | In Christian belief it was a symbol of the resurrection of the flesh , and may have been significant in Scandinavian paganism too , for the bones of a peacock were found within the ninth-century ship-burial from Gokstad in Norway , whereas all other animal remains lay outside it . |
| 27 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |
| 28 | This may have been fine for early disposable e-mail , but as office systems of all kinds have developed into tools to create , store , retrieve and delete the only copy of more substantial record types , it is necessary to institute more organised retention methods . |
| 29 | The second consequence of this unilinearity is that the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language and society in which that idea may not have existed , or — if it did exist — may have been different in important ways from the idea of the standard as it exists today . |
| 30 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |