Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The reference to Murphy suggests that a sentence of four years would have been upheld on an appeal by the offenders .
2 Love , 25 , had two eagles and four birdies in a round which he said would probably not have been played on the USPGA tour .
3 The jury comes to a conclusion that er the police er took whatever degree of reasonableness was breached , that the raid should n't have been made on the day it was .
4 At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences .
5 However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant .
6 After all , a couple 's lives may have been built on a lot of separateness .
7 In just six months a new Hardys & Hansons traditional style pub will have been built on the spot .
8 The hope might have been based on a number of things .
9 Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level .
10 If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver .
11 Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein .
12 The mill site and its supply leat must surely have been constructed on the outline of unit two — the course of the leat would be strange if it was earlier and had conditioned the shape of unit two .
13 ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’
14 Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them .
15 Both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords held that damages should have been assessed on the basis of the known fact that the plaintiff would in any event have been totally incapable of work as a result of spinal disease from 1976 .
16 The earliest area of crofts may have been situated on a bluff west of the church , while an extended area was later laid out to the north around a triangular green , with an earlier Norman manor house going out of use at the same time .
17 asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times .
18 With the development of urban centres and religious foundations greater demand would have been placed on the hinterland .
19 And , yes , it was made by Kemp , although some doubt could quite properly have been harboured on the matter : Ashenden knew the man , and knew his voice ; and in spite of what was probably a poorish extension-line , confirmation that the call was from Kemp had come from the telephone-operator , someone else who knew him — knew him very well , in fact .
20 That it should have been modelled on the Temple of Solomon may seem at first sight presumptuous , but it was an age that relished allusion , and Solomon , son of David , was of royal descent , anointed by Zadok the priest , and the king par excellence .
21 If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle .
22 This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides .
23 It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter .
24 Mr. Pegg believes that his tariff may have been set on the basis that the attack was premeditated , and thus that the tariff period should be reduced .
25 When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses .
26 Each person could well have been entered on the case load as a separate case , in view of the time and attention each required .
27 ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed .
28 There was consternation that they could have been overlooked on a day commemorating such a vital part of British history .
29 He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets .
30 The other option , of course , would have been to survive on a diet of the same bananas until help arrived .
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