Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the town naughty boy all right , and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley . |
| 2 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 3 | It jumped headfirst into the 1980s property boom and is now paying the price : the ebbing tide has revealed not only severe recession damage , but also gaping holes which should have been plugged years ago . |
| 4 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 5 | So , what did you think of the adverts ? of Decommissioning and Waste Management 's Transport Technology Department felt that the idea of the high-profile campaign was ‘ good , but it should have been done years ago ’ . |
| 6 | If England were looking to the future then some of the players should have been selected years ago . |
| 7 | In Darlington , 83pc of the tyres checked were already illegal and should have been replaced weeks earlier . |
| 8 | Both sides could make out a case that they deserved to win and should have been awarded penalties . |
| 9 | Why this should have been thought evidence of scurrility was known only to Joyce ‘ s peculiar logic . |
| 10 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 11 | ’ He should have been voted broadcaster of the year . |
| 12 | At all periods there must have been recognised places in a locality where goods could have been acquired or disposed of . |
| 13 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 14 | Must have been built m Georgian times . ’ |
| 15 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 18 | ( 89 ) Not only a pin , even a dead mosquito , might have been heard drop . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He suggested that Abraham Ross might have been mistaken in. thinking both burglars had Scottish accents . |
| 21 | Any one of a very large number of ways of throwing rocks together would be labelled a mountain , and might have been named Mont Blanc . |
| 22 | There was so much hostility to his Catholicism and his attack on chartered rights that it might have been thought William and Mary would have had no difficulty establishing their authority in America , but this was not what happened . |
| 23 | Had they , after nineteen-eighteen , learnt the lessons that were to be learnt , then we might have been spared Hitler and the Second World War . |
| 24 | On 15 December 1982 the health dispute collapsed and the unions eventually consented to a two-year agreement which could have been accepted months earlier . |
| 25 | " It could have been done years ago , but nobody was really interested in it . " |
| 26 | There were large boats there that could have been called ships ; they were webbed with a confusion of lines and ropes , and had the spider figures of men clinging to them . |
| 27 | This Fraxillian city apparently had none of those things , except objects that by a stretch definition could have been called buildings . |
| 28 | Several muffled sounds came from Mandru 's corner of the room , which could have been stifled laughter or exclamations of surprise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |