Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been taken by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |
| 2 | The car is unnumbered , suggesting that its number might have been taken by a new Standard car . |
| 3 | For a festival or a wedding feast a very similar dish , a gigot of mutton on a bed of sliced potatoes , might have been taken by Madame Escoffier senior to the village baker 's oven to cook . |
| 4 | ‘ He could have been taken by surprise . |
| 5 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 6 | There is in my judgment no objection to the decisions attacked in this case on the ground that they were or may have been taken by junior ministers rather than by the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | It was Abem Finkel , Muni 's brother-in-law , who worked out a screenplay from the basis of a draft by Musmanno and a melodramatic comedy about Slavic miners by Harry R. Irving , but there were other supervisors and writers involved and ultimately the vital decisions with regard to the project would have been taken by Jack Warner and his senior executive Hal Wallis . |
| 8 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |