Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords held that damages should have been assessed on the basis of the known fact that the plaintiff would in any event have been totally incapable of work as a result of spinal disease from 1976 . |
| 2 | In military terms the problem should have been settled on the first day . |
| 3 | There is no a priori reason why she should have been modelled on the warlike goddess Minerva ( or Roma ) ; indeed , on an Italian medal made in 1564 , Anglia ( as she then was , before the unification of the kingdoms ) appears as a simple female figure dressed in the ordinary clothes of daily life . |
| 4 | That it should have been modelled on the Temple of Solomon may seem at first sight presumptuous , but it was an age that relished allusion , and Solomon , son of David , was of royal descent , anointed by Zadok the priest , and the king par excellence . |
| 5 | In this situation , the dealer 's liability to the finance company should have been founded on the sale contract between them . |
| 6 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 7 | At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences . |
| 8 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 9 | As a matter of strict precedent , however , this aspect of the Lonrho case must have been decided on the same factual assumption as that which governed the conspiracy claim , viz . |
| 10 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 11 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 12 | The roar might have been heard on the other side of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 13 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 14 | She swore she could remember being dropped on the floor by the doctor who delivered her . |
| 15 | We do n't think we do n't think that the citizens of are doing cartwheels at sixty four thousand pound being spent on a benefit bus to tour round this district and certainly if the festival organisers two years ago could commit themselves to breaking even within two years and were happy with that , why have we spent two hundred and forty thousand pound on a festival in when that money , and that 's four hundred thousand pounds worth of money , could have been spent on the salaries and training of our officers who work in children 's homes . |
| 16 | This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides . |
| 17 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 18 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
| 19 | We could have been murdered on the spot , Tom and Maggie and me . |
| 20 | On the facts of most of them breach of duty could have been established on the conventional ground that the directors had failed to act in good faith for the benefit of the company . |
| 21 | The number of people whom they knew personally in Berlin could have been counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 22 | Some of his soft-ground plates of plants — tree roots and details of vegetation and rocks could have been drawn on the spot , in fact where the reversal of the image was not of importance or obvious . |
| 23 | This result could have been anticipated on the basis of aspirin 's non-selective inhibition of the synthesis of both pro-aggregatory and anti-aggregatory prostaglandins , and of the ineffectiveness of heparin for the inhibition of clot-associated thrombin . |
| 24 | In accordance with the theory of rational expectations , Barro identifies the predictable component of monetary growth as that part of the process determining monetary growth which could have been predicted on the basis of the information available at the time . |
| 25 | AN UNLIKELY winner , John Byme 's bright , affectionate ( and , as usual , part-autobiographical ) comedy may have been based on the dubious allure of flabby men playing rock 'n' roll in the '80s ( Scotland 's The Majestics , led by the formidable Robbie Coltrane ) but it provided umpteen memorable supporting characters , some genuinely touching , if wacky , romantic interludes and tons of '50s classics for the nostalgia vote . |
| 26 | ( c ) Accounting and tax Whilst agreement in principle may have been reached on the relative standing in the new firm of its partners , precise calculation of their capital and profit sharing ratios can be a nightmare as the accountants wrestle with the task of bringing the accounts of the firms involved into line with one another : and it will be assumed here that there are differing practices which need to be harmonised . |
| 27 | Despite the sentencing it is not entirely clear whether the accusation of ‘ bad restoration ’ relates to the possible damage which may have been inflicted on the original paving of the Piazza or to the outcome of the entire campaign . |
| 28 | In problems on tort and criminal law the student is expected to enumerate and discuss all the possible torts or crimes that may have been committed on the facts given in the problem , and also all the possible defences that may be raised . |
| 29 | A considerable amount of effort may have been expended on the design of such items and their components so that they perform their intended function efficiently or are visually attractive . |
| 30 | I checked with Morrison , the chauffeur at Orme Gardens , and he was suspicious that the Datsun may have been used on the Saturday night . ’ |