Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [vb pp] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said arrangements should have been made to actually take him to a medical officer and said he should not have been allowed to leave Comber and Newtownabbey RUC stations when he called that day . |
| 2 | John Bowley , or Bowyer , a shot maker who took on the Hartfield steel forge in 1525 , might have been related to either Valentine or Nicholas Bowyer ( land £2 and £3 respectively ) . |
| 3 | Although dispersals have been made from every library on the list at the end of this book — and , as has been remarked , the list could have been extended to twice its size or more by further random sampling — it is obvious that the dissolutions took place for different reasons , some less culpable than others . |
| 4 | The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that stable workers could have been exposed to as much as 190 times the acceptable daily intake . |
| 5 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 6 | ‘ The energies expended on continually fighting for funding could have been put to more practical use but the decision vindicates that effort , ’ she said . |
| 7 | As a result of these difficulties , the second approach was adopted of breaking bone in an artificial environment that simulated the stresses it may have been subjected to under natural conditions . |
| 8 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 9 | Many significant messages will have been conveyed to both teachers and pupils . |