Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious that if this submission is correct , setting up Stardust Jewellers would have been pointless . |
| 2 | Reports in late January suggested that the United Kingdom Defence Ministry might have been aware of the export of components used in the manufacture of the Iraqi " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] . |
| 3 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 4 | on the date of import into the United Kingdom the car which was the subject of the total loss settlement would have been exempt from value added tax and car tax |
| 5 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 6 | In any case the stock fence would have been essential . |
| 7 | Faceted and polished pebbles are not all that common and are also found in periglacial conditions where wind action may have been important , e.g. the Breckland of East Anglia . |
| 8 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 9 | I pointed out that if there had been any counter demonstration effect would have been serious and very uncomfortable to both of us . |
| 10 | Given the importance of the " last in , first out " principle in British industry , the experiences of many members of the temporary labour force would have been little different from what they actually were . |
| 11 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 12 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 13 | Our study population may have been different from that examined in other studies in respect of different bowel habits ( less consistent diarrhoea in our patients ) . |
| 14 | In each case the implications for their regular labour forces would have been negative . |
| 15 | Many of the initial assessments by doctors in this study were carried out by trainee psychiatrists who spent only six months with the team as part of their training ; had the proportion of assessments by consultant psychogeriatricians and clinical assistants in the sample been more representative , the agreements between team and research diagnoses might have been closer still . |
| 16 | Practice shots would have been impossible , but with Open traffic at crawling pace , it was never on . |
| 17 | Ten years ago the idea of the general secretary of the Transport Union making a friendly tour of a British car factory would have been unthinkable . |
| 18 | Sampling error because of an insufficient number of biopsy specimens may have been responsible for the fact that this difference did not reach significance . |
| 19 | Nor do I recognise the judges who can discriminate between frivolous and genuine employers in the Appeal Court ruling that dock strikes might have been illegal for the past 40 years . |
| 20 | Such evidence at least suggests that , after the initial vast prehistoric clearances , conservation of woodland was necessary and woodland management would have been widespread . |
| 21 | A failure to adapt to this situation will result in more newly qualified staff leaving for other types of work or training when a period of work experience would have been valuable . |
| 22 | MAFF did not conduct a farm by farm assessment to define boundaries as DAFS ( Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland ) has done in Scotland because the manpower requirement would have been enormous and the work would have taken , according to MAFF , 8–10 years to complete for England and Wales . |
| 23 | Last year , two of my hon. Friend 's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge , so this year 's council tax would have been cheaper for them — |
| 24 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 25 | The fall in cyclic AMP means that a cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase must have been active despite the presence of IBMX ( 0.1 mM ) . |
| 26 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 27 | The shopping centre may have been open again today … but business was well down . |
| 28 | Mr Roller said Dresdner 's operating profit would have been higher but for increased write-offs in its securities operations . |
| 29 | Her sensible cotton nightshirt must have been one of his discards . |
| 30 | Type C may have been present throughout — from the early to the late-fourth century — as elements in a number of contrasting designs ( e.g. pI . |