Example sentences of "have been [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap . |
| 2 | I 'm glad you said that , Chairman , I was I was just thinking erm , cut out the but , regarding on Equal Opportunities , erm , Policies , as we 've been discussing already , I would have thought housewives would have been delighted to have conservative hours rest presumably I just thought I was |
| 3 | Benhabyles , as chair of the Constitutional Council , should have assumed interim presidential powers in the absence of a Speaker of the National Assembly , but was apparently unwilling to take on this responsibility , under which he would have been obliged to organize presidential elections within 45 days . |
| 4 | In order to evaluate whether the enhanced home support of the action scheme was successful in sustaining at home some people who would otherwise have been likely to enter institutional care , it was necessary for the action to take place in a prescribed geographical area , so that an equivalent , matched area could become a control area . |
| 5 | This is not , of course , to say that workers would have been prepared to face long-term falls in real earnings . |
| 6 | She knew of at least one reason why each of these six women would have been glad to see Handsome Henry dead . |
| 7 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 8 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 9 | In Jobling , the plaintiff might have been able to claim social security benefits to partially compensate for his losses . |
| 10 | Mr Scarff said : ‘ I could n't carry on employing staff who supported the men and might have been able to leak sensitive information . ’ |
| 11 | He would have been able to make ample provision for the future whether or not he survived . |
| 12 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 13 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 14 | Any significant weakening in the authority or military resources of the government would have been liable to unleash rural disturbances on an even greater scale . |
| 15 | She even acknowledges she was tempted to give up her job at one stage and go on to social security as she would then have been entitled to free legal aid . |
| 16 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 17 | These differences might be due to lower doses used insome of the studies , short measurement periods after oral ingestion that might not have been sufficient to reach effective drug concentrations , and the fact that we investigated oesophageal motility on day four of oral drug treatment . |
| 18 | The premiums charged by Outhwaite should have been sufficient to cover future claims , but in fact were not because of a heavy spate of asbestos and professional liability claims after 1982 . |