Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 2 | Why this should have been thought evidence of scurrility was known only to Joyce ‘ s peculiar logic . |
| 3 | ’ He should have been voted broadcaster of the year . |
| 4 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 5 | The subject was taken from contemporary life and the chief musical interest lies in the treatment not of the amorous gentry but of the hero 's four comic servants and their sons , and the peasants at a fair , who sing partly in dialect : and in a quick recitative with many repeated notes which must have been performed quasi-parlando . |
| 6 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 7 | ( 89 ) Not only a pin , even a dead mosquito , might have been heard drop . |
| 8 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 9 | Several muffled sounds came from Mandru 's corner of the room , which could have been stifled laughter or exclamations of surprise . |
| 10 | Why Mr Jones did n't book him for what could have been deemed incitement in front of Newcastle 's followers will remain a mystery along with his dropball doodle-bug . |
| 11 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 12 | Michael Green of Carlton may have won the London daily franchise from Thames and Andrew Quinn may have been appointed head of ITV 's scheduling , but they still have everything to prove . |
| 13 | A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed . |
| 14 | Known as sensori neural deafness , it may have been called nerve deafness , perceptive deafness , inner ear deafness , presbyacusis — but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss , at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics . |
| 15 | The bones of a small rodent species eaten by a small owl are more likely to be broken than the bones of the same rodent species eaten by a larger owl , even though in both cases the rodent may have been swallowed whole . |
| 16 | Certainly some of the earlier building activity may have been misplaced effort . |
| 17 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 18 | The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed . |
| 19 | There is the difficulty of calling witnesses who may have died , or gone abroad , or who may have been promised confidentiality . |
| 20 | For example , a retailer may have been refused access to a selective distribution network on grounds which his lawyers advise the retailer are inadequate . |
| 21 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 22 | However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business . |
| 23 | With a 5% exclusion clause only one of these parties would have been granted representation , and the complex process of forming a government would have been much less painful . |
| 24 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 25 | Like the polished wood that covered surfaces that would have been painted metal in any other car … |
| 26 | It was their duty ‘ so to work as to make proprietors or occupiers on a lower level as secure against injury as they would have been had nature not been interfered with . ’ |
| 27 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 28 | She would have been considered trash , the lowest of the low , if one had dared to enter ’ |
| 29 | More recently , in many primitive societies , where animism has been practised , it would have been considered sacrilege to bring nature under control . |
| 30 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |