Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 2 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 3 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 4 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 5 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 6 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |