Example sentences of "you [modal v] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have been born in another country , for instance , and still not feel truly at home in the foreign culture and customs you have come to . |
| 2 | As well as being appropriately dressed you should also be aware that you may have been noted even while looking at the agency 's window display . |
| 3 | You may have been instructed by a superior in your organisation to solve a problem by writing a report on it . |
| 4 | You may have been conned into believing that successful human beings are the ones with loads of brains and loads of friends but the truth is different ! |
| 5 | You may have been sat in the Wendover if you 've come on the Sunday , but even having breakfast I bet you were going , what time do you think we ought to leave . |
| 6 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 7 | Consider the following reading tasks that you may have been set , either by yourself or your teacher : |
| 8 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 9 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 10 | ‘ You must have been mistaken , ’ Barak replied , shaking his head . |
| 11 | You must have been spoilt rotten Dennis Lotus , er singing with a band like Ted Heath . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have been blown in there by the blast of the bomb . |
| 13 | Those two had a photo to watch for you coming off the plane — which means you must have been followed to Helsinki Airport . |
| 14 | You must have been sold old stock , Robert — a driver for the BJ-10E has been available for at least eight months . |
| 15 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you must have been requested to endorse the SSR for specific package(s) via the Mail System . |
| 16 | In order to qualify for these national insurance benefits , you must have been married to your husband on the date he died . |
| 17 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
| 18 | That this is where you should have been headed . |
| 19 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 20 | You should have been notified by your employer if he opted for this but if you never heard anything , or can not remember , write to that employer , or to the DHSS , and enquire . |
| 21 | ‘ It leaves me wondering why you should have been chosen for this very tame assignment . |
| 22 | You should have been allowed to congratulate her first . |
| 23 | If you are concerned that you might have been exposed to sources of infection , especially if you have been unwell for some time , you can discuss your concerns with your family doctor or antenatal clinic . |
| 24 | It is understandable to be worried and scared if you think you might have been exposed to HIV . |
| 25 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 26 | ‘ Before rushing ahead with your sketches I think you might have been advised to take the time to familiarise yourself with what G.W. Fashions stands for . ’ |
| 27 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 28 | ‘ You might have been paid to assassinate him , ’ went on Samuel objectively . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 30 | You 'll have been briefed , I 'm sure , about the two day management get-together that we 're gon na have at Scarborough next week . |