Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 2 | Thus , unless the table shown is a reproduction , which it is not , it would have been made within a comparatively short period . |
| 3 | This explains the abundance of deltaic sediments in the stratigraphical record of the continental areas , but one must also expect that such sediments will either not exceed a critical maximum thickness , such as that suggested above , or they must have been deposited in a tectonically subsiding trough . |
| 4 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 5 | Surely , if you really had not news to report , the space could have been deployed in a much more productive manner — maybe to help some worthy cause or charity . |
| 6 | ‘ I regret that this whole matter could not have been handled in a more constructive manner . ’ |
| 7 | Some conference representatives may have been influenced by a fiercely polemical front page editorial in yesterday 's Daily Mail . |
| 8 | It is easy to Find more simple language in which the same ideas might have been expressed in a more humdrum context : delay for procrastinate , for example , or pay for remuneration . |
| 9 | As Bowers has pointed out , however , it must be questioned whether the same results could not have been achieved by a strictly enforced parking policy , given the lack of parking space . |
| 10 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 11 | So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country . |
| 12 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 13 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 14 | The explosions may have been linked with a particularly violent six-week strike by railway workers in which seven people have died . |
| 15 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 16 | Even in the case of a regular wage-earner or salaried employee , there might be complications ; for example , the plaintiff might claim that he would have been promoted to a more remunerative post ( in which case the court must assess his prospects of promotion and award damages accordingly ) or the defendant may claim that the plaintiff 's employer had suffered severe business setbacks that necessitated redundancies and that the plaintiff would have lost his employment ( in which case the court must consider all the circumstances and award as damages what it estimates to have been the plaintiff 's net loss ) . |
| 17 | The executive checked the documents , and noted that the order should have been executed at a much lower price . |
| 18 | Because Messiahship was regarded as something dynastic , something in part dependent upon a bloodline , people 's attention , as we observed before , would have been focused on a relatively small network of interlinked families who could claim descent from both David and Aaron . |
| 19 | Among the errors that would have been eliminated by a more careful reading is the statement that Frances Power Cobbe was the only Unionist among these four women ; Millicent Fawcett was at least as opposed as Cobbe to Irish Home Rule ; and only Josephine Butler actively supported it . |
| 20 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |