Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 2 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 3 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 4 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 5 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 6 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 7 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 8 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 9 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 10 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 11 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 12 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 13 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 14 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 15 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 16 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 17 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 18 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 19 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 20 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 22 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 23 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 24 | To Paykel , it would have been considered a positive event or ‘ entrance ’ event which he would therefore not expect to correlate with depression . |
| 25 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |
| 26 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |
| 27 | According to Dore ( 1979 ) the later that capitalist development occurs the less likely there will have been established a prior system of free wage labour in a capitalist agricultural sector . |