Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 2 | The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed . |
| 3 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 4 | She would have been considered trash , the lowest of the low , if one had dared to enter ’ |
| 5 | However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business . |
| 6 | It was their duty ‘ so to work as to make proprietors or occupiers on a lower level as secure against injury as they would have been had nature not been interfered with . ’ |
| 7 | Known as sensori neural deafness , it may have been called nerve deafness , perceptive deafness , inner ear deafness , presbyacusis — but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss , at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics . |
| 8 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 9 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 10 | ’ He should have been voted broadcaster of the year . |
| 11 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 12 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 13 | More recently , in many primitive societies , where animism has been practised , it would have been considered sacrilege to bring nature under control . |
| 14 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |