Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to carry out a Caesarian section should perhaps have been taken after the 4.30pm examination when the heartbeat was known to have decelerated , he said . |
| 2 | The entry into Jerusalem can only have been made with the calculated design of identifying himself , very specifically in the eyes of the populace , with the expected Messiah — in other words , with the rightful king , the ‘ anointed one ’ . |
| 3 | The recommendation can only have been based on the interests of cost-cutting , not of justice . |
| 4 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 5 | The requirement of establishment imposed by the West German rule could only have been justified by the need to protect policy-holders . |
| 6 | In fact , many of these images could only have been created with the aid of magnifying glasses . |
| 7 | However , the overwhelming " yes " vote could only have been achieved with the additional support of the larger of the republic 's minority groups such as the Armenians ( 9 per cent of the population ) , Azerbaijanis ( 5 per cent ) and even the Russians ( 7.4 per cent ) . |
| 8 | It could have been provided as an additional barrier to odour , but this could only have been achieved by the use of waxed paper — as seen in the Lethieullier vault at Little Ilford , Essex — between the top of the sides of the coffin and the lid . |
| 9 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 10 | The intact pellets collected from varying distances from the nest , however , could only have been left by the adults . |
| 11 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
| 12 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 13 | Some of these diplomatic operations can only have been performed for the gratification of the Jews themselves . |
| 14 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 15 | In case ( a ) , it could be concluded that equilibrium in the balance of payments might only have been accomplished with the existing policies by accepting higher levels of unemployment . |
| 16 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 17 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 18 | The existence of the charge will normally have been revealed to the purchaser either by the results of its initial company search against the vendor or through the disclosure exercise . |
| 19 | The hindbrain and midbrain structures , normally associated with relaying sensory information to the cortex , spontaneously generate signals which are responsible for the cortical activation , and are also indistinguishable from signals which would normally have been relayed from the eyes and ears . |
| 20 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 21 | Directives would require to be implemented by familiar forms of domestic legislation — but the substance of the legislation would already have been determined by the Council . |
| 22 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 23 | Also , Edmund may already have been suffering from the illness , or possibly wound , of which he was soon to die . |
| 24 | 9.1.3 Alternatively to Condition 9.1.1 , the Seller shall be entitled at its absolute discretion to refund the price of the defective goods in the event that such price shall already have been paid by the Purchaser to the Seller , or , if such price has not been so paid , to relieve the Purchaser of all obligation to pay the same by the issue of a credit note in favour of the Purchaser in the amount of such price . |
| 25 | It is quite unlike the Trojan origin which may already have been attributed to the Franks as a result of imperial diplomacy , and suggests that the Merovingian dynasty did not come to the fore as a result of its connections with Rome . |
| 26 | EVANDER HOLYFIELD knows that he might already have been consigned to the freak section of world heavyweight championship history had Mike Tyson taken no for an answer in that Indianapolis hotel room . |
| 27 | After all , the European Community of the 12 may already have been overtaken by the events of the past 18 months . |
| 28 | What is meant by calling these ‘ complex ’ is that they serve a clear and distinct function which could already have been envisaged by the testator in making his will . |
| 29 | Even if she sets a track record she would already have been upstaged by the people 's champion . |
| 30 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |