Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 2 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 3 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 4 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 5 | You could say it should have been allowed many more to establish itself , but it was not a notable success . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if there was no restoration going on the castle fire service should have been informed this stuff was being stored in the chapel . ’ |
| 7 | Traditionally the first window should have been opened this morning . |
| 8 | It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi . |
| 9 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 10 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 11 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 12 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 13 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 14 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 15 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 16 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 17 | Had Ken not been beset by peculiarly worrying tours as England manager/coach , that small family might have been spared such early grief . |
| 18 | Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " . |
| 19 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 20 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 21 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 22 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
| 23 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 24 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |
| 25 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 26 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 27 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 28 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 29 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 30 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |