Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 2 | He had a fraction of a second to be surprised at finding himself in the middle of all this traffic , when up there , that was his road , up there , that 's where he should have been by now . |
| 3 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 4 | For example , if you look up the word " wit " in a Concordance to Congreve , you will find all the places where the seventeenth-century dramatist Congreve used that word ; you can then work out what its particular meaning for Congreve must have been by studying how he uses it . |
| 5 | That judgment , passed in 1953 , has never been challenged , as it might have been by an appeal to the House of Lords sitting in its appellate civil jurisdiction capacity . |
| 6 | Whatever refereeing failures there may have been by Alf Buksh at Tottenham on Saturday and most critics believe Mr Buksh booked too few Arsenal players too late Graham 's remarks afterwards did not befit an Arsenal manager . |
| 7 | The rise of cities in the modern world is undoubtedly not independent of the emergence of modern power-driven machine technology , mass production , and capitalistic enterprise ; but different as the cities of the earlier epochs may have been by virtue of their development in a pre-industrial and pre-capitalistic order from the great cities of today , they were also cities . |
| 8 | Possibly , too , the building trade was invaded by a new class of speculator who made conditions even worse than they need have been by extracting high profits out of the unprecedented demand for cheap houses . |
| 9 | Thus , at the time of the last Tory leadership election , a victory for Michael Heseltine would have been by far the most professionally exciting result . |
| 10 | If it were not for the scenes written after his marriage , The Elder Statesman would have been by far the grimmest play he had ever written . |
| 11 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 12 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |
| 13 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 14 | and the basis , basics would have been by the end of next week but certain , assuming that they are not interrupted and sort of dragged onto something more lucrative the bad news will have been quantified by then . |