Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 2 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |
| 3 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 4 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
| 5 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 6 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 7 | As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government . |
| 8 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 9 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |