Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Could not the job have been done by a doctor , a surgeon and one attendant ? |
| 32 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 33 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 34 | Saddiqi , a learned and formidable intellectual , was embarrassed if not frightened , because his answer could never before have been given by a subject to the Shahanshah , King of Kings , Light of the Aryans , Muhammad Reza Pahlavi , Hesitantly , he said it was because no one wanted to be associate with the Shah . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The chevauchèe may have been seen as a challenge to the enemy 's pride and ability to defend his territory , but it is doubtful whether the leader of a chevauchèe , often at the head of but a few thousand men , and needing to make the expedition profitable through the taking of booty and prisoners , was seeking battle . |
| 38 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 39 | And yet there is now a way in which a small business can introduce ‘ new technology ’ methods for producing its internal documentation , manuals , price lists , brochures , indeed anything that previously would have been sent to a designer or printshop . |
| 40 | Most of the cases determined after a trial would have been begun by a writ issued in 1985 or 1986 . |
| 41 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 42 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 43 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 44 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 45 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 46 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 47 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 48 | After all , a couple 's lives may have been built on a lot of separateness . |
| 49 | It was said afterwards that the remains of the truck could have been packed into a kitbag . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 52 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 53 | Almost certainly , it would have been perceived as a sign , a portent , a palpable manifestation of God 's hand . |
| 54 | Sometimes an older property will have been listed as a building of special architectural or historical interest and again details should be supplied . |
| 55 | This matter , involving the liberty of the subject , was , of course , urgent and should have been listed as a matter of urgency . |
| 56 | The hope might have been based on a number of things . |
| 57 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 58 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 59 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 60 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |