Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , a No from the Bosnian Serbs should not be considered as an unequivocal , irreversible rejection of the peace plan , any more than a Yes should have been regarded as a wholehearted acceptance of it . |
| 2 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |
| 3 | First , April Ashley should have been recognized as a female . |
| 4 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
| 5 | Either no words should have been changed and the original should have been presented as a quotation , or the original should have been rewritten as a paraphrase ( in both cases , acknowledging that the whole passage comes from the textbook , something the extract above from " Foregrounding in King Lear " does n't do ) . |
| 6 | This matter , involving the liberty of the subject , was , of course , urgent and should have been listed as a matter of urgency . |
| 7 | It was always debatable whether Turkey should have been included as a European country ; its GNP suggests that it fits more comfortably with other Asian countries . |
| 8 | Either no words should have been changed and the original should have been presented as a quotation , or the original should have been rewritten as a paraphrase ( in both cases , acknowledging that the whole passage comes from the textbook , something the extract above from " Foregrounding in King Lear " does n't do ) . |
| 9 | That Smart should have been stigmatised as a madman in all his publications after his confinement is not surprising , if any of this fragmentary , unpublished work in progress was known to his contemporaries . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | The product package must exist ( and must have been created as a product using option 1.1.1 — Create Package/Product ) . |
| 12 | By this time Lewyn must have been regarded as the principal military architect in the north , for he was also commissioned by Sir Richard le Scrope ( first Baron Scrope of Bolton , q.v. ) to build Bolton Castle , Yorkshire . |
| 13 | A side tunnel branched up slightly into a chamber that must have been worked as an exploration into the vein . |
| 14 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 17 | For the Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Organisation ( Lautro ) , the regulator charged with supervising life offices and their agents , one or two mishaps might have been regarded as the inevitable teething troubles of a new system . |
| 18 | Esther was treated with anti-coagulant drugs , and the doctors monitored her kidneys , which they feared might have been damaged as a complication of the toxaemia . |
| 19 | Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership . |
| 20 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 21 | While The School Curriculum might have been seen as the government 's definitive statement on the structure of the national curriculum framework , it was superseded in September 1984 by The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum , although the wording of the latest document conveyed the impression that the final nature and scope of the national framework has not yet been determined . |
| 22 | A reason why a pattern of vertical stripes might have been selected as a social bonding device is that attachment takes place most strongly during periods of grooming ( right ) and this involves a zebra bending its neck creating vertical folds in the skin ( below ) ; the bold stripes could have evolved to augment and elaborate these dark lines . |
| 23 | When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner . |
| 24 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 25 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 26 | Had he been English he might have been described as a typical eccentric . |
| 27 | Those tears , which led to dismissal , could have been seen as a source of energy and redirected by an understanding supervisor to a powerful commitment to doing the work well . |
| 28 | Looking at the terms of the agreement as contained in the letter from Hunter 's attorney , and the receipt , it is manifest that the payment was not made in discharge of the plaintiff 's rights against all other parties ; and the result of the whole is , that it does not operate as a release , or matter which could have been pleaded as an accord and satisfaction , but amounts merely to an engagement not to sue Hunter , which can only be pleaded by himself ; if the action , therefore , had been brought against two parties , it would not have been a discharge to both . |
| 29 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 30 | The Mountie said grudgingly that a blood-covered rolled-up sheet of plastic had been found on the track near the area where Angelica must have been battered , and it could have been used as a poncho , and it was being investigated for blood type and fingerprints . |