Example sentences of "have been [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
| 2 | Though these accident reductions are to be welcomed , they have to be seen in the context of what could have been achieved using alternative approaches , such as those used in Buxtehude or Berlin-Moabit . |
| 3 | With the tower made of glass and steel , the explosion would have been bound to cause severe injuries . ’ |
| 4 | We could have been bound to pay enormous sums of money if we had lost . ’ |
| 5 | Pupils should already have been encouraged to ask historical questions in the primary school but this should be reemphasised throughout Key Stage 3 . |
| 6 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric might have been used to sharpen tactical differences and to make opponents look absurdly paranoid . |
| 7 | Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols . |
| 8 | Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved . |
| 9 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |
| 10 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 11 | Of course , if you were a Vogue reader with a purse to match , you would have been urged to visit such places in the 1970s , but where the rich ( or adventurous ) manage to travel independently , the package holiday-maker reaches a decade later and , just as Thomas Cook had envisaged , the inclusive tour enables more people to travel to far-flung destinations . |
| 12 | This royalty shall not exceed the amount that would have been paid had such copies been printed and sold by the Publisher and which is set out in Clause I of this Schedule |
| 13 | This royalty shall not exceed the amount that would have been paid had such copies been printed and sold by the Publisher and which is set out in Clause 1 of this Schedule . |
| 14 | Additionally , the level of detail achieved by the extended breakdown of the conceptual model could have been utilised to explore other aspects of the formal systems model ( eg resource levels , control or communication issues and so on ) , or to examine matters such as the ideal groupings of systemically desirable tasks , an approach discussed further in Chapter 12 . |
| 15 | Compared with 1973 SDLP lost seats in Armagh and Mid-Ulster which could have been retained had Republican Clubs supporters transferred votes to SDLP . |
| 16 | This in itself was unusual , as the high-ranking patrons would have been expected to display classical scenes in their houses , leading to the supposition that these intimate portraits of courtesans were most probably on view only in the private apartments . |