Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are suggestions in the judgment that the decision would have been otherwise had the buyer been a property speculator . |
| 2 | The result may have been otherwise had the hirers received previous notice of their obligation to insure which , of course , invites scrutiny of the issue relating to incorporation of terms ( see Olley v Marlborough Court [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 ) . |
| 3 | In the test question with a calendar provided , the number of days in July was not given ; the success rates would probably have been higher had this information been given . |
| 4 | Reports on Nov. 12 said that US officials had confirmed that the final percentage of Warsaw Pact weapons cuts would have been higher had it not been for the removal of large numbers of Soviet tanks and other heavy arms across the Ural Mountains to areas where they were not covered by the Treaty provisions . |
| 5 | Taxable profits , which slipped from £62.1 million in 1991 to £53 million , would have been higher had the group not set aside £12.7 million against the cost of closing its four Chesterman furniture stores , which suffered operating losses of £6.2 million in the year . |
| 6 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 7 | This introduced important changes : it removed the requirement that the Court should seek to return the parties to the financial position which they would have been in had their marriage not broken down ; it required the Court to give ‘ first consideration ’ to the welfare of any child of the family ; and it contained a number of provisions designed , in appropriate cases , to emphasise the importance of the parties seeking to become self-sufficient after divorce . |
| 8 | They will seek to put the innocent party , so far as possible , in the position he would have been in had the contract been performed . |
| 9 | The logic of this is that the drawer is in the same position he would have been in had he not discounted the bill . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Zhukov 's intervention had been solicited by the highest authority ; by Party norms no impropriety had been committed ( as would have been so had Khrushchev 's colleagues been acting in accordance with Central Committee sentiment ) . |
| 11 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 12 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 13 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 14 | Boro saw a 16-point lead cut in half as Long Eaton , outclassed in the opening races , won four of the last seven heats and the margin of defeat would have been less had the impressive Dane Jan Staechmann not slid into the safety boards in the final race when set for his fourth win of the night . |
| 15 | Although the piece was a well balanced probe into the Phoenix career ( and an immensely interesting career it is too ) , one was left with the feeling that she would n't have been there had it not been for the status of her interviewer . |