Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 3 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 4 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 5 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 6 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
| 7 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 8 | It could , because you could put and a sailing boat might have been pushed on by the tide . |
| 9 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 10 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 11 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 13 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 14 | They would have been locked out in the street . |
| 15 | Only later , when we saw the photographs , did we appreciate that Donnelly must have been magicked out of the car at the precise millisecond when the car exploded on impact . |
| 16 | At the connecting tunnel it would have been led out of the entrance to the East Shaft top by wooden launder . |
| 17 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 18 | Leeds were forced to play that third game against German champions Stuttgart , when the Bundesliga outfit should have been kicked out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player . |
| 19 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 20 | ‘ Those carvings in the museum must have been tossed out with the rubble when they dug this place , ’ she suggested to Benny . |
| 21 | Thus twenty tons of explosives could have been rained down on the Voie Sacrée each day , not to mention demoralising night attacks . |
| 22 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 23 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |
| 24 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 25 | Again , if there had been a Thatcherite on the programme , the Labour expert would have been blown out of the water . |
| 26 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 27 | Whiteman , who played in the 1992 debacle , must have been spurred on by the memory as his rink took 13 shots over the last six ends while preventing the opposition from any further score . |
| 28 | So many locations that would before have been snapped up by the professionals will be available to the amateur . |
| 29 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 30 | Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May . |