Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 2 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 3 | To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics . |
| 4 | Must have been all those flowers . |
| 5 | She 'll have been awake all night , thinking and thinking and thinking . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello , I 'm trying to clarify a rather confused report we 've picked up — I think from the local police — about an incident at the hospital last night , or it could have been early this morning . |
| 7 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 8 | The development of the double helix structure of DNA may have been one such improvement in the early stages . |
| 9 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 10 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 11 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 12 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 13 | SUCH a scoreline would have been unimaginable this time last year , but Chelmsford 's new-found strengths more than Oxford 's incredible decline engineered this crushing English League win . |
| 14 | They would have been worried that word would get back — as , indeed , it does — and that the T'ang would act through his Ministers to make life awkward for them . |
| 15 | Twenty-five years after everyone else , I am now discovering the joys of Hey Joe , Voodoo Chile and Purple Haze courtesy of The Ultimate Collection ( Polydor ) which contains 20 great songs from Hendrix who would have been 50 this month . |