Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 2 | But for your lordship 's visit I should have been gone before this . ’ |
| 3 | Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well . |
| 4 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 5 | It seemed clear , though , that some courses which should have been entered in this section ( referred to in responses to earlier questions , e.g. 1.6 ) were not listed here , so these are almost certainly under-estimates . |
| 6 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 7 | ‘ It leaves me wondering why you should have been chosen for this very tame assignment . |
| 8 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 9 | One of the slave-builders must have been incarcerated behind this hatch as a sacrifice to good fortune — with the chance of squirming his way up that curving conduit to some high exit point , a well-nigh impossible task when fettered . |
| 10 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 11 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 12 | Most of these expensive incidents might have been avoided by this drill . |
| 13 | Perhaps the clergyman who eventually did open the door might have been included in this category , surprised though she was to see him . |
| 14 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |
| 15 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
| 16 | It was desperately hard to accept that this serene man , so calm , so dignified , such a majestic cricketer , could have been taken in this way . |
| 17 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 18 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 19 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 20 | Even though the fear of violence may have been justified in this case , the 30-mile zone and the fact that the disorder was expected to emanate from other than the marchers make the implications of the case disturbing , even in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 22 | All introns may have been eliminated in this organelle by the above mentioned mechanism , except those which are implicated in trans-splicing . |
| 23 | The movement may have been divided in this period , but these attacks did not take place without resistance and the value of collective action was learned . |
| 24 | I think it extremely likely that the plaintiff would have followed the inevitable recommendation from its officers which would have been to proceed with this action in order to avoid paying compensation . |
| 25 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 26 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 27 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 28 | We assume that he would have been informed of this during his briefing at Eighth Army , and obviously it was no less important for Macmillan to brief Keightley than for him to brief Harding . |
| 29 | But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded . |
| 30 | Meantime according to IDC Europa figures , DEC took a 15% — £52.5m — share of the £350m UK workstation market last year , although more than 50% of those workstations it shipped were configured with VMS or OpenVMS , and few if any Alpha-based models would have been included in this total . |