Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For example , a retailer may have been refused access to a selective distribution network on grounds which his lawyers advise the retailer are inadequate .
2 The bones of a small rodent species eaten by a small owl are more likely to be broken than the bones of the same rodent species eaten by a larger owl , even though in both cases the rodent may have been swallowed whole .
3 The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public .
4 A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed .
5 Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate .
6 A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage .
7 Certainly some of the earlier building activity may have been misplaced effort .
8 The newest method of converting hand movements to signals the computer can understand is called Trickstick .
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