Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | In the case of a restricted licence , the LA must revoke it if , twice within a five-year period , the holder is found guilty of carrying goods which should have been covered by a standard or standard international licence . |
| 3 | If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely , it would not break the chain of causation . |
| 4 | In line with the peace treaty , however , both should have been replaced by a new national civil police force , and the FMLN claimed that the government had deliberately withheld the necessary resources for this to be accomplished . |
| 5 | It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute . |
| 6 | It is unsurprising that the lawyers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should have been attracted by a contractual analysis of the company . |
| 7 | That North should have been caught by a memorandum , one of the common plants of the swamp , was especially ironic . |
| 8 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 9 | Finally , no financial support should have been provided by a pharmaceutical company . |
| 10 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 11 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 12 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 13 | It must have been sheltered by a submarine ridge , for there were no currents to disturb the fine sediments on the floor or to bring in oxygenated water from nearer the surface . |
| 14 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 15 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 16 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 17 | However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening . |
| 18 | " He appeared disoriented , begged to be allowed to sleep , and said he must have been cured by an injection . |
| 19 | The prospective author must be British or resident in Britain and the book must have been published by a British publisher or a publisher with a British branch . |
| 20 | And there also , in an earlier picture , was the brown bear fur coat : Dorothy , flanked by Helen and Edward as children , stood on a pavement against a background of London taxis and buses — they must have been caught by a street photographer on one of those pantomime or ballet outings . |
| 21 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 22 | A damned dangerous architectural feature if you ask me , which added weight to my theory that the pub must have been designed by a feminist with a grudge . |
| 23 | Surely , it must have been bought by a company . |
| 24 | His walks through the streets of Rome must have been accompanied by a constant sensation of deja vu . |
| 25 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 26 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 27 | The article Halfway to liberation ( Trade Wars NI 204 ) might have been written by an IMF boffin . |
| 28 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 29 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 30 | All were so shabby they might have been worn by a dressy tramp . |