Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [verb] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key which she must have been holding had fallen beside her . |
| 2 | It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs . |
| 3 | It would be futile to speculate what might have been achieved had these two separate teams felt able to cooperate . |
| 4 | Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter . |
| 5 | It is possible but unlikely that progress might have been made had the UN adopted an investigative role instead of a course of action proposed by the United States . |
| 6 | Atherton might have been saved had he played forward , and yet his judgment against his previous 185 balls was almost unceasingly correct . |
| 7 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 8 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 9 | The scene might have been absorbing had I not been fighting to keep control of the wheelbarrow . |
| 10 | Osbert Lancaster did some memorable cartoons for the V & A 's ‘ Country House ’ exhibition in which he caricatured the unsuitable new uses to which the great houses of fiction might have been put had they existed in real life . |
| 11 | Timely arrival of the bill of lading prevented the accrual of costly demurrage , storage , and customs charges , which might have been incurred had the vessel arrived before the bill of lading . |
| 12 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 13 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 14 | He could have been forgiven had he waxed much more lyrical . |
| 15 | We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier . |
| 16 | There was medical evidence that her life could have been saved had she arrived at hospital earlier . |
| 17 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 18 | A stranger could have been excused had he mistaken Joe for a gentleman of middle eastern origin . |
| 19 | But the crash could have been avoided had the pilot taken a safer course , Sheriff Douglas Risk said in his report on an inquiry into the accident held 13 months ago . |
| 20 | The situation could have been avoided had the teeth been regularly checked and rasped . |
| 21 | Far too many by any stretch of the imagination ; fatalities which could have been avoided had care and attention to personal safety been exercised . |
| 22 | But we know that that pain and suffering could have been avoided had you accepted earlier advice . |
| 23 | ‘ In general terms , this accident could have been avoided had the petrol vapour not been exposed to a source of ignition , ’ Mr Haddock added . |
| 24 | Leading the protest was mini-skip operator Bob Morris who said much of the damage caused in Marl Drive and other streets could have been avoided had warnings about the nearby River Wyddan been heeded . |
| 25 | Compared with 1973 SDLP lost seats in Armagh and Mid-Ulster which could have been retained had Republican Clubs supporters transferred votes to SDLP . |
| 26 | B.C. won this semi-final 18–16 , four penalties and a goal to four penalties and a try , and could have been eliminated had Troy McDonald , the Alberta outside-half , been successful with a difficult drop goal in the final minutes . |
| 27 | These protests may have been ignored had it not been for the enthusiasm of Hans-Dietrich Genscher for EMU : ‘ the creation of a single European monetary zone , with a European central bank , constitutes the economically indispensable centrepiece of a European single market ’ . |
| 28 | The mischief alleged is that offenders were allowed to commit further offences which would or may have been obviated had they been arrested earlier . |
| 29 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 30 | Eleven Clay Cross councillors were surcharged for the money which would have been obtained had the Act been implemented and they were also disqualified from holding public office for a period . |