Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein . |
| 2 | Judging from the number of Londoners who ended by having to pay more than they were initially assessed for , this refrain could have been sung a bit too often to be convincing . |
| 3 | Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis . |
| 4 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 5 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 6 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 7 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 8 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 9 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 10 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 11 | Anyone who did this last time would have been guaranteed a win . |