Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 2 | Charlie said there should have been markers to show the jockeys where to switch from the steeplechase course to the proper course . |
| 3 | Should have been ladies first , of course . |
| 4 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 5 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 6 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 7 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 8 | There should have been gloves and protective goggles and face masks to field the resin and varnish dust . |
| 9 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 10 | There must have been assignations . |
| 11 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 12 | ‘ Then it must have been holiday-makers out for a walk , ’ said Betty . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 14 | They must have been sleepers . |
| 15 | Then a police car pulled in behind , then another one , and four lovely bobbies got out and told the Americans — well , they must have been Americans , and huge they were — to put their guns away or be disarmed . |
| 16 | We must have been fules , you see , to have took all that trouble to level our things up ! ’ |
| 17 | There must have been nicknames but er ca n't really , do n't really remember . |
| 18 | But there must have been cases were n't there ? |
| 19 | Of course there must have been prohibitions and limits set , but I do n't remember rebelling against any of them . |
| 20 | At the same time it must be remembered that the occupations of a quarter of the inhabitants were not stated ; some of them must have been farmers , and it is quite conceivable that many of the omissions were the result of uncertainty as to whether or not to class the persons in question as agricultural or industrial . |
| 21 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |
| 22 | In that case there must have been genes controlling variation in caddis houses , for selection can not produce adaptations unless there are hereditary differences among which to select . |
| 23 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 24 | When offered the leadership for which he had fought so hard , Law almost lost It by his apparent doubt ; in his speech of acceptance he spoke at length of his unfitness for the job ; when told that he was now a great man and must learn to behave like one , he replied " If ! am a great man , then a good many great men must have been frauds . " |
| 25 | There must have been concentrations of seal makers at the great temple centres , serving the larger populations of the towns . |
| 26 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 27 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 28 | Others were in pairs , lying next to tangles of black metal that must have been mortars and missile launchers before Ace had destroyed them . |
| 29 | We sipped them gratefully , but I must have been miles away , for Mr Johnson said , ‘ Daydreaming , eh ? ’ |
| 30 | I do n't , you must have been miles away this morning . |