Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 2 | Moreover , the ‘ curved path ’ , ‘ whirling mass ’ , ‘ cosmic wheel ’ or spiralling vortex described by the ancients as the integrating pattern of cosmic universal energy , can only be seen to have the endorsement of modern research and understanding . |
| 3 | agents to have more information that they can sensibly be taken to have , |
| 4 | 9.20 Limitation on liability Before leaving the provisos it may be worthwhile to include the following additional proviso : On an assignment of this Lease in pursuance of the Landlord 's licence authorising the assignment the Landlord shall forthwith at the assignor 's cost release the assignor from its future liability under this Lease in such form as the Landlord shall reasonably require Although this is unlikely to find favour with the landlord , it should perhaps be considered having regard to a recession and the outcry from tenants who , having assigned their leases , are being called upon to pay accumulating back rents as a result of the insolvency of the current tenant . |
| 5 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 6 | Again , in order to preserve the assumption of relevance , an inference must be made about who is to do what : since the last mention of someone doing something involved B going to A , that is presumably what A intends , and may thus be taken to have meant . |
| 7 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 8 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 9 | Rather , one will generally be taken to have exploited the conventions in order to communicate some further pertinent message . |
| 10 | As to less peculiarly solicitorial matters , a partner will generally be taken to have the implied authority of his co-partners in such matters as : ( 1 ) rendering accounts in respect of work done by the firm ; ( 2 ) bringing or defending legal proceedings ; ( 3 ) employing and dismissing staff ; ( 4 ) opening bank accounts in the name of the firm ; ( 5 ) entering into contracts on behalf of the firm ; ( 6 ) accepting payments of partnership debts . |
| 11 | On the other hand , in a Keynesian model where an increase in the supply of money can generally be expected to have real effects , i.e. where output will rise , the private sector will be able rationally to predict these quantity effects from the correct model ( in this case Keynesian ) which is included in the information set . |
| 12 | For , there is a widespread phenomenon that Grice has called exploitation : in general , if there is some communicative convention C that one does A in context Y , then suppose instead one does B in Y , or does A but in context Z , one will not normally be taken to have simply violated the convention C and produced nonsense . |
| 13 | Candidates will normally be expected to have some postgraduate or teaching experience , although training will be provided by the University 's Centre for Teaching , Learning and Assessment . |
| 14 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 15 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
| 16 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 17 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 18 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 19 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 20 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 21 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 22 | With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment . |
| 23 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 24 | Freud can not be said to have been unaware of the variability of human nature in different societies which have other economic arrangements and different cultural aims from those of Europe and America . |
| 25 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 26 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 27 | The House of Lords said that punctual payment required payment on the Friday , if the banks were closed on the Saturday and Sunday , and that the owners could not be said to have waived the breach simply because their bank had accepted the payment order . |
| 28 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 29 | For , in its guise as the Parliamentary Labour Party , British Empirical Socialism can not be said to have intended , when governing the country , to have replaced private ownership of industry wholly by public ownership . |
| 30 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |