Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [been] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must 've been surprised when I answered the door . ’ |
| 2 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 3 | erm the other view , of course , is that medicine should have become much more scientific and that these almost old wives remedies should have been disgraced and discontinued . |
| 4 | But either way we should have been consistent and we apologise for confusing at least one of you . |
| 5 | At that range it was impossible to distinguish details — but the royal standard should have been visible and was not . |
| 6 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 7 | A pity : I should have been delighted if the two writers , Johnson and Thomson , could achieve a time-machine meeting over the vandalising of Elgin Cathedral . |
| 8 | It should have been irresistible and yet we hesitated , embarrassed at having taken so long . |
| 9 | A different approach diverts our attention away from the relation between the proposition claimed as knowledge and other false beliefs which should have been true or other truths which should have been believed . |
| 10 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |
| 11 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 12 | It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral . |
| 13 | Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations . |
| 14 | In these circumstances , it was suggested that the auditors should have been aware that Fidelity was vulnerable to a takeover bid and that any possible bidder such as Caparo would be likely to rely on the accounts when deciding whether a bid should be made and that loss would be suffered by such a bidder if the accounts were inaccurate . |
| 15 | With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 16 | If the medical treatment was given negligently , i.e. if the doctor should have been aware that the plaintiff was allergic , then it is likely that the court would treat the medical negligence as a novus actus interveniens which broke the chain of causation . |
| 17 | The dental examinations were performed before follow up for disease occurrence and thus there should have been little if any bias in the assessment of oral health . |
| 18 | A second or so before half time Bradford should have been dead and buried as Tommy Jones hit the post . |
| 19 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
| 20 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 21 | So he must have been convinced that there really was a lot more where that came from . |
| 22 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 23 | The redoubtable Ethel must have been shocked when it was made clear she was down-graded to five , the same as Gracie Holt . |
| 24 | He was sure that , even though he and Ari got along well , she must have been disappointed when Leila chose him for the job . |
| 25 | ( b ) She was 34 weeks pregnant and must have been anxious as to the health of her baby . |
| 26 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 27 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 28 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 29 | Hips and elbows must have been X-rayed and have received excellent results , but further more , all dogs must participate in the Swedish mental test . |
| 30 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |