Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 2 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 3 | ‘ Even if there was no restoration going on the castle fire service should have been informed this stuff was being stored in the chapel . ’ |
| 4 | Traditionally the first window should have been opened this morning . |
| 5 | It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi . |
| 6 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 7 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 8 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 9 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 10 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 11 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
| 12 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 13 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 14 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 15 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 16 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 17 | It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him . |
| 18 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 19 | A dwelling in Scotland that is placed in band D will have been assigned that band because its value at 1 April 1991 is over £45,000 but does not exceed £58,000 . |
| 20 | ‘ This tour , if it is allowed by the courts , will be the Barnes 's salvation ’ , said National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , ‘ because when it comes back from Paris and Japan , there will be many millions of dollars that will have been generated this way . |
| 21 | He is hopeful , therefore , that notice will have been taken this side of the Atlantic , not only by Augusta National at the Masters , but also by the United States Golf Association , who are the governing body of the American Open , and the United States PGA , with a mind to the PGA Championship . |