Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 A personal injury claim was commenced in the High Court when , in accordance with the High Court and County Court Jurisdiction Order 1990 , it should have been brought in the county court , a fact which the person bringing the case in the High Court knew or should have known .
2 In no time we were a mile from either bank … and the daytrippers were thoroughly enjoying themselves.Even one couple who should have been cruising down the Seine were happy with the alternative :
3 They must have been brought in the hope of some celebration to which the way had been lost .
4 Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record .
5 Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel .
6 Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy .
7 Matata poled gracefully ; he could have been punting down the Cam as his pole pushed blue and white water lilies aside .
8 Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans .
9 In a discontinued action , the district judge has power , on taxation , to determine the scale of costs ( Ord 38 , r 4(7) ) and as to costs where an action is brought and tried in the High Court which could have been brought in the county court see s 19 .
10 THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday .
11 If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter .
12 Daylight would have been shining up the gallery from that east window . ’
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