Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [modal v] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , improvements such as this could have been introduced without going wholesale into a market economy for health with its inevitable two-tier system for general practice . |
| 2 | Attempts were made by Wulfhere to detach the kingdom of Lindsey from its dependency on the north Anglian king , for Chad probably and Wynfrith ( 672-c. 674 ) certainly , successive bishops of Lichfield , exercised episcopal authority over the Lindesfara ( HE IV , 3 ) and the political foundations for this may have been laid in the 660s . |
| 3 | Of course , much of that would have been done in his lectures , to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix . |
| 4 | It is sad , and somewhat ominous , that so little of that should have been reflected in the sombre statement which Mr Parkinson made in the House yesterday .. |
| 5 | Some of this may have been channelled into Pathe , where Mr Fiorini is still co-chairman . |
| 6 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 7 | If you had n't come round that night , none of this would have been allowed to happen — ’ |
| 8 | The effect of this would have been to transfer responsibility for venue decisions from the magistrates to the prosecution , while preserving the defendant 's right to opt for jury trial . |
| 9 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 10 | Following the Romans ' introduction of the geared watermill into England , many such mills were established — the Domesday Book lists 5,624 mills , although a good proportion of these would have been worked by horses or oxen rather than water . |
| 11 | The very first of these may have been held in Burrell 's Hall off the High Street , but two years later , Glasgow 's first Concert Hall was cobbled together . |
| 12 | ( Not all of these will have been killed . |
| 13 | Many of these could have been prevented if the right measures were available and used correctly . ’ |
| 14 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 15 | People such as these may have been enslaved as a result of capture in war or through failure to meet legal obligations ; the scale of the practice is unclear ( Davies 1982 , p. 66 ; Sawyer 1978 , p. 173 ) . |
| 16 | all that money that they keep demanding from the er th wa th wa the firms and such like that ought to have been ploughed back into the firm ! |
| 17 | A situation like this could have been resolved by either the workers in the marketed sector accepting lower wages , or the employers accepting lower profits or a combination of the two . |
| 18 | Information on that could have been supplied as part of the information on the accountability of the service . |
| 19 | If rigorous logic had been followed , no payment at all would have been made for the transfer of development value to the state but this as the Uthwatt Committee had pointed out , would have resulted in considerable hardship in individual cases . |
| 20 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |