Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what we 're saying is really is that the defi definition and the role of local government should have been debated I think from starters . |
| 2 | A SENIOR police officer has admitted a town 's nightclubs should have been warned they would have to close early when the clocks went forward on Saturday . |
| 3 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |
| 4 | They might have been treated them , to come up earlier . |
| 5 | ( Alas , but for his robustness , the final degradation might have been spared him . ) |
| 6 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 7 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 8 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 9 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 10 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 11 | To what natural laws or secondary causes the orderly succession and progression of such organic phenomena may have been committed we are as yet ignorant . |
| 12 | However the wealth may have been produced it is evident that it had created a rich landowning class . |
| 13 | If the referee has any doubt as to whether or not a try would have been scored he can only award a penalty , exactly the decision in the final . |
| 14 | So it 's , it is a , it 's a survival in that m , in in that respect , and ye is t , is merely , erm , an archaic version of the , and and would have been pronounced ye . |
| 15 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to her many constituents who are now home owners and thus have the privilege of owning their own homes — a right which would have been denied them if we had listened to the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 17 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 18 | Indeed , he opposed rigid grounding in English grammar and urged that Latin be taught by the direct method , as it would have been had it been a living language . |