Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . … |
| 2 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 3 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 4 | The English armies could hardly be said to have been outfought since they had not yet fought at all . |
| 5 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 6 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 7 | In over four years of ‘ The Great War for Civilization ’ , something that could never be assessed had been crushed by the imbecile violence of the Great Powers . |
| 8 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 9 | Subject to that , an expert is not prohibited from following these litigation-style procedures , but he would be unwise to do so because the reference may subsequently be held to have been an arbitration and will in any event take longer and be more costly . |
| 10 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 11 | For communication involves the notions of intention and agency , and only those inferences that are openly intended to be conveyed can properly be said to have been communicated . |
| 12 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 13 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 14 | That recent moment of glory , the Benson and Hedges Cup win at Lord 's in 1987 , can now be seen to have been illusory . |
| 15 | Of course Rufus 's ready compliance with Anselm 's wishes , for which Anselm gave him so much credit , can now be seen to have been wholly political . |
| 16 | An indifference of this kind is clearer in the 1950s , and can even be seen to have been deliberately fostered . |
| 17 | The capital of Kenya , Nairobi , can truly be said to have been made by its station . |