Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Order 29 , r 1(3) provides that if the order was injunctive , it should have been served having borne thereon a " penal notice " — see below . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 3 | ‘ They must have been pushed to have put that in ! ’ she told him scornfully , although she was secretly pleased to see that the camera had been kind to her . |
| 4 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 5 | The key which she must have been holding had fallen beside her . |
| 6 | Richard Halton might have been felt to have the least enviable job in taking on Simon Keenlyside 's much praised Papageno , but he did so with great panache and comic flair , and sang soundly as well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would be futile to speculate what might have been achieved had these two separate teams felt able to cooperate . |
| 9 | These comments do not seem to be based primarily on the notion of standardization as a process ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) that might have been beginning to have an effect about this time : they present the standard language as a coherent entity — a variety , like any other variety . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Atherton might have been saved had he played forward , and yet his judgment against his previous 185 balls was almost unceasingly correct . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The scene might have been absorbing had I not been fighting to keep control of the wheelbarrow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 17 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products . |
| 21 | The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 22 | Bloomsbury was five years old in 1991 , and might have been expected to have outgrown the cash-hungry habits of the start-up . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | He might have been persuaded to have them out here but he would not let them be any sort of nuisance , and she was well aware of it . |
| 25 | The absence of such a universally adopted standard whereby the human conscience could have been developed to have a significant influence on human behaviour , has been the cause of much failure in efforts to administer justice . |
| 26 | He could have been forgiven had he waxed much more lyrical . |
| 27 | We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier . |
| 28 | There was medical evidence that her life could have been saved had she arrived at hospital earlier . |
| 29 | ‘ I know it 's hard to accept , Dawn , but all that could have been done has been done . |
| 30 | From this it appears that they would have to become unrecognisable as potatoes before they could have been said to have perished . |