Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it 's hard to accept , Dawn , but all that could have been done has been done . |
| 2 | How it could have been made to pay is a mystery . |
| 3 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
| 4 | But publications in America and Europe which may have been approached to buy were being wary on the subject yesterday . |
| 5 | The last thing that Mrs Keppel would have been encouraged to do was to get a divorce . |