Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [been] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 2 | Their family fears that they may have been tortured to death or extrajudicially executed , or that they are still being held in incommunicado detention . |
| 3 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 4 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 5 | In addition , they should have been introduced to communication skills involving questioning , simulation and judgement and opportunities should have been given to prepare the pupils to cope with conflicting evidence in actual historical issues . |
| 6 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 7 | They might have been referring to somebody they knew . |
| 8 | ‘ They might have been told to . ’ |
| 9 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
| 10 | If the Labour Party had announced , in 1964 or 66 , its intention to ‘ oppose capitalism ’ fundamentally and had explained what this was likely to involve in terms of dislocation of international trade and payments ( even Callaghan 's mildly redistributive budget of 1964 was enough to cause a run on the pound ) , and the onus which would have to be placed on the trade unions in running industry , given the likely non-co-operation of many among the managerial strata , it is quite implausible to say they would have been elected to office . |
| 11 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 12 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 13 | As it was , they will have been subjected to the comments , whispers and taunts of other children in school . |