Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 2 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 3 | I mapped out our plans — the Palladium , the TV series — must have been £50,000 of work . |
| 4 | There must have been interference with performance of a contract |
| 5 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |
| 6 | The decision was not costly for India — Marsh was bowled shortly afterwards — but most onlookers were convinced that Boon , when 1 , must have been lbw to Kapil Dev . |
| 7 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 8 | There must have been concentrations of seal makers at the great temple centres , serving the larger populations of the towns . |
| 9 | Sommerlad might well have added that , although such an idea might have been anathema at home , nothing prevented the colonial authorities from publishing newspapers in Tanganyika , Kenya , the Rhodesias , Sierra Leone and many of the French territories . |
| 10 | Cobalt shook his head , which might have meant he did n't know or might have been admonishment for Oliver who was still holding the bottle of wine . |
| 11 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
| 12 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 13 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 14 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 15 | One of these early pictures may have been Miner with Shovel on his Shoulder , a clumsy Expressionist drawing in black chalk and wash . |
| 16 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 17 | This may have been Painswick near Stroud , which has a long-standing tradition of clipping , as he was in Gloucestershire at one time . |
| 18 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 19 | The most useful form of illustration would have been sets of drawings on papyri or thin wood tablets , loosely bound together . |
| 20 | ‘ Eighty years ago her subjects would have been knights in armour , ladies in wimples and distress … now , in 1939 , they were bodiless heads , green horses and violet grass , seaweed , shells and fungi ’ , all executed in the style of Dali . |
| 21 | Tim Renton , once the Minister for the Arts ( in any other country save Britain his title would have been Minister of Culture ) , thought Hyacinth would have made an admirable Carmen . |
| 22 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 23 | The amalgamation of properties would , perhaps , have had the greatest effect since the main purpose would have been economy of management . |
| 24 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 26 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 27 | Many of these men would have been individuals of vision and creativity as well as manual dexterity . |