Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] have been [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may have been worn as earrings . |
| 2 | Some must have been employed as supervisors . |
| 3 | ‘ Aurigny ’ is the old French name for the island of Alderney , and it is fitting that this should have been chosen as the airline 's title , since in many ways that rocky islet is the heart of the organisation . |
| 4 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 5 | This would have been counted as a great success and a reasonable rate of progress in the 1850s or 1860s but was so unprecedented and so humiliating , given the contemporary assumptions about government control , that the bill was dropped . |
| 6 | Information on that could have been supplied as part of the information on the accountability of the service . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The former query , until recently , would have been classified in the ‘ Housing , property and land ’ section while the latter would have been classified as a ‘ Social security ’ enquiry . |