Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb mod] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 2 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 3 | Six surviving compositions may be ascribed with certainty to Plummer , namely two movements of a four-voiced tenor Mass with the antiphon ‘ Nesciens Mater ’ as its tenor , and three three-voiced settings of Marian antiphons which do not use the chant and must have been sung as votive memorial pieces ; his masterpiece , Anna Mater Matris Christi , sets a respond , again without the chant , in a remarkable texture of three equal tenors with an optional treble part riding above — certainly a fitting example of the art of the master of the chapel children . |
| 4 | Aristotle derives it from " phallic songs " , which were a common constituent of Greek fertility ritual and would have been sung to or for a particular fertility god : this would usually , though not perhaps invariably , have been Dionysus . ) |
| 5 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 6 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 7 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 8 | ‘ They show that a major capital investment , amounting to £160 million in current prices , did not produce much physics and should have been closed long before it was in 1977 . ’ |
| 9 | The agreement was clearly intended to be of short duration and could have been secured by a lease for a fixed term , say five or ten years with power for the landlord to determine before the expiry of that period for the purposes of the road widening . |
| 10 | Jones v Sherwood was about the sale of a business and should have been reported in one of the principal general series . |
| 11 | The book is firmly rooted in the olden , and golden days of classical physical chemistry and could have been written circa 1960 — perhaps it was . |
| 12 | For example , many of the predominantly Hindu women from India would have been vegetarian whereas Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh would have eaten meat and may have been infected while preparing raw meat . |
| 13 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 14 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 15 | The place looks like a fortress and may have been occupied by Greek mercenaries rather than by Greek traders . |
| 16 | Strachan lacked pace and should have been replaced by Rocky . |
| 17 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 18 | I spent a week on the rack , far away from home , constantly trying to achieve this extra margin which , I hardly need to point out , would have gone straight down to the bottom line and would have been shown as profit . |
| 19 | The phrase ‘ married to a hearing wife ’ is written in a different hand and must have been entered after 1839 which was the year Lowe married a Francis Charlotte Jellicoe in London . |
| 20 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 21 | It also dates 1st century and could have been intended as either a key or a knife handle ( although the fact that it has a circular socket favours its use as a key handle ) . |
| 22 | the SPR identifier must be known to LIFESPAN and must have been submitted |
| 23 | the SPR identifier must be known to LIFESPAN and must have been submitted |
| 24 | Damages only follow when the loss arises naturally from the breach and might have been anticipated by the parties . |
| 25 | Heavy beams were lifted into place using a wooden hoist , but a lot of the work was done by sheer muscle power and would have been carried out by slaves . |
| 26 | You must have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege to use this option and must have been selected to approve the package . |
| 27 | Had I not woken up to get a glass of milk we would not have known about the fire and would have been trapped upstairs . ’ |
| 28 | By now your heater will have brought the water to temperature and should have been adjusted to ensure that it 's spot on . |