Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated .
2 Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees .
3 So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest .
4 I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day
5 Here the choice must have been between good lakes and less good lakes .
6 Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that .
7 Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain .
8 You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ?
9 Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places .
10 By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah .
11 If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out .
12 Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help .
13 IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday .
14 What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost .
15 The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods .
16 Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble .
17 If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble .
18 The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space .
19 A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence .
20 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ?
21 Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier .
22 In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working .
23 Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value .
24 I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick .
25 The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble .
26 Carr , who went the distance with Wharton last time , protested about the stoppage , after 2min 7sec of the eighth round , but if referee Dave Parris had allowed the fight to continue the Australian could have been in serious trouble .
27 If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble .
28 This could have been from various modes of formation , or from the presence of appreciable quantities of short-lived quick-acting radioactive isotopes , such as 26 Al .
29 Or it may have been through passive smoking .
30 For Cadafael , king of Gwynedd , Oswiu 's domination of the north Britons , perhaps particularly the Votadini , may have been of principal concern .
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