Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been used by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order of the list of land birds is almost exactly the same as appears in Darwin 's 1839 Journal of the Voyage of the Beagle , so these notes must have been used by Darwin as the basis for his subsequent publication . |
| 2 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 3 | Such general schemes could have been used by craftsmen of little mathematical or geometrical ability . |
| 4 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 5 | Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper . |