Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The premiums charged by Outhwaite should have been sufficient to cover future claims , but in fact were not because of a heavy spate of asbestos and professional liability claims after 1982 . |
| 2 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |
| 3 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 4 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
| 5 | To assist in the establishment of such a regime the bureaucracy must have been able to conserve most of its resources intact through the preceding liberal-democratic regime . |
| 6 | She must have been able to lick enough water to keep alive , ’ he said . |
| 7 | You must have been able to squeeze half an hour sometime or other . |
| 8 | Oh , you must have been able to squeeze half an hour some time or other . |
| 9 | All the cooking would be done by slaves , and the kitchens must have been difficult to keep clean and mice and cockroaches a familiar sight . |
| 10 | Arnie must have been thrilled to get such a big turn-out . |
| 11 | Their immediate neighbours were Joshua Burn , a grocer , at no. 6 , and James Bradnam , butcher , at no. 5 ; one can only hope that Mr. Bradnam kept his slaughterhouse at a decent distance from his retail premises — the very special aromas of a butcher 's and a grocer 's shop must have been enough to discourage many a potential guest at Miscellaneous Repos , without the sound of dying cries from butchered beasts . |
| 12 | The situation at the other end must have been grave to warrant such an effort . |
| 13 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
| 14 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 15 | AS the Chancellor prepares for his budget next month and contemplates the unenviable situation in which he finds himself , he might be excused for thinking that it might have been better to move last September . |
| 16 | AS the Chancellor prepares for his budget next month and contemplates the unenviable situation in which he finds himself , he might be excused for thinking that it might have been better to move last September . |
| 17 | Two adjacent tracks begin with almost identical motifs and in the same key ( tracks 16 & 17 ) , and it might have been better to place another work between them ; however , this is a small criticism of a thoughtfully prepared and magnificently played programme . |
| 18 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 19 | The regimes which emerged in Lithuania and Estonia had considerable popular support ( both implemented quite radical land-reform programmes ) , and might have been able to sustain independent national States without foreign intervention . |
| 20 | In Jobling , the plaintiff might have been able to claim social security benefits to partially compensate for his losses . |
| 21 | Mr Scarff said : ‘ I could n't carry on employing staff who supported the men and might have been able to leak sensitive information . ’ |
| 22 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
| 23 | I 'd 've been inclined to do that thing on it . |
| 24 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
| 25 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 26 | THE Department of Trade may have been slow to acknowledge financial — though not supervisory — responsibility for the victims of Barlow Clowes . |
| 27 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 28 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 29 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 30 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |