Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counter these claims he tempers the language slightly : ‘ The article should perhaps have been entitled the ‘ implications ’ rather than the consequences of literacy . ’ |
| 2 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 3 | The effect of these operations must surely have been to shorten the war . |
| 4 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 5 | Yet , clearly , any account of the death of the author as arbiter of the final ‘ meaning ’ of a given text ( Barthes 1977 ; Foucault 1977a ) , is potentially matched by the important , though much less addressed , question of the transcendence of the industrial designer , who , as Forty ( 1986 ) has shown , should never have been ascribed the autonomy often assumed . |
| 6 | Not only are there examples of extreme rarity , a large ‘ Christ driving the money changers from the temple ’ in coloured chalk by Jacopo Bassano , two handsome brush drawings by Carpaccio , a ‘ Thebaid ’ by Costa , the only drawing which can be attributed with any reason to Desiderio da Settignano , Pordenone 's superb red chalk ‘ Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr ’ , drawn in competition with Titian and Palma Vecchio , which comes from Chatsworth and should never have been allowed an export licence from Britain , Albert Cuyp 's delightful ‘ Milkmaid ’ , Saenredam 's ‘ Choir and north ambulatory of the Church of Saint Bavo , Haarlem ’ , Altdorfer 's ‘ Christ carrying the cross ’ , but also many of great beauty , Turner 's finished watercolour ‘ Long Ship lighthouse , Land 's End ’ , the anonymous Swiss ( Bernese ? ) |
| 7 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 8 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 9 | The Isle of Wight might well have been renamed the ‘ Isle of Grey ’ in the gloomy winter light , but while the photo session reinforced the Beaver 's manoeuvrability it did highlight its inertia , even large power changes taking their time to have an effect . |
| 10 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 11 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 12 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 13 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 14 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 15 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 16 | Indeed , the intention of the English negotiators when the Second Treaty of London was drawn up may well have been to make the French an offer they would be bound to refuse . |
| 17 | The thief may simply have been stealing the books to sell . |
| 18 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 19 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 20 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 21 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 22 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 23 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 24 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 25 | Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty . |
| 26 | If I had had to justify my work in terms of clinical benefits before I started it , I would never have been given a licence . |
| 27 | As recently as 5 years ago , Leeds would never have been given the Makita tournament or chance to stage matches with a global profile . |
| 28 | Indeed , if it were to be as firmly and clearly drawn as some of our mentors would wish , I can not help feeling that a number of leading cases in your Lordships ' House would never have been decided the way they were . |
| 29 | Having taken over from Michael Barton as captain , Surridge led boldly , the sum of his character and his various skills proving formidable even if , paradoxically , he would never have been considered a batsman or bowler of the highest class . |
| 30 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |