Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte Keatley 's My Mother Said ] Never Should has been greeted with great acclaim by the male critical establishment who appear unable to apply their usual standards to the work of a young woman . |
| 2 | Really , they should have been equipped with special badges : ‘ Kiss Me , I 'm a C2 ’ . |
| 3 | This was because these capitalists lived in part or in whole out of the profits which should have been shared with all those who had helped in the process of production . |
| 4 | Family prayers must have been said with particular fervour that night but it was n't only the dramatic episode that drove Ella Burrows to her knees . |
| 5 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 6 | Had the attack been properly organized and coordinated , these vital heights might have been taken with little loss and the successes consolidated . |
| 7 | Johnson took this latter and soon ‘ began to wish that our curiosity might have been gratified with less trouble and danger ’ . |
| 8 | In our example , Year 1 could have been charged with 5,000 , 4,000 or 2,500 . |
| 9 | Yeah , I mean , it could have been done with real honesty , but |
| 10 | Few enterprises , it says , could have been faced with such a daunting task . |
| 11 | Antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured in 17 patients and the question arises if the diagnosis of coeliac disease could have been made with these results alone . |
| 12 | I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers . |
| 13 | Assume that goods became loose in rough seas either because of improper lashing or because of heavy seas that could have been avoided with better navigation . |
| 14 | Again , it was bad enough to have a surge associated with high spring tides , but it could have been associated with equinoctial springs seven weeks later with even more disastrous results . |
| 15 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 16 | The rationale behind the exposure draft is that the auditors may be improperly pressurised into adopting the opinion the outside firm has given , and that this opinion may have been given with inadequate knowledge of the circumstances . |
| 17 | People who are only mildly mentally handicapped may have been born with average mental abilities , in the sense that there was no identifiable problem inherent in the pregnancy or birth . |
| 18 | Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them . |
| 19 | Arguably , the information skills shown in this chapter may have been associated with manual retrieval systems . |
| 20 | But this is sugar cane country so it may have been designed with that in mind . |
| 21 | Any attack on Beaumaris would have been presented with formidable problems . |
| 22 | Perfumery is perhaps an even more ancient art than dyeing ; it is a more obvious constituent of a plant , so would have been experimented with earlier , to disguise bad smells if nothing else , such as those of rotting meat and decaying vegetation . |
| 23 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 24 | Second , he turned down a proposal from the Kennedy administration to create a Multilateral Nuclear Force ( MLF ) , in which British and French nuclear forces would have been integrated with some American forces under NATO command . |
| 25 | Most commanders would have been afflicted with convenient deafness at that moment , but Davout rounded on the speaker at once . |
| 26 | ‘ If he had walked away we would have been left with 11 men to their 10 . ’ |
| 27 | They divided local government services in such a way that most of the major services including education , major planning , personal social services and housing would have gone to the regional authorities while the districts would have been left with minor aspects of these services and certain amenity services . |
| 28 | Both the ‘ Fine Rose ’ and the ‘ Superior Rose fully trimmed ’ would have been provided with buttoned rosettes , similar to those shown on a late nineteenth-century shroud in the Castle Museum , York . |
| 29 | It asserts most forcefully its opinion that should consent be given for the proposed development then an unforgivable error will have been perpetrated with major consequences for the Welsh coast and countryside . |