Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters should appear to have been typed individually . |
| 2 | I often thought I should like to have been taught by someone like him . ’ |
| 3 | But it has been shown that few of the innovations of this period were without precedent in the policies of earlier years , and that much of the crucial thinking about the form these new institutions should take had been done in the inter war period . |
| 4 | Discussions about what they should wear had been interspersed with sexy gossip concerning the star of the occasion , Nathan Bryce . |
| 5 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 6 | With reference to the fate of the Copernican system , we have encountered many complications , even in a test case that , because of Galileo 's trial , might seem to have been loaded from the start . |
| 7 | Obviously when considering this process of loss we have to remember that an individual seldom goes through these stages as neatly as might seem to have been suggested . |
| 8 | None of this had escaped French notice , and some of the heaviest mortars they could muster had been brought up ; resulting in the burying alive of many of the Bavarians underneath their Stollen . |
| 9 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 10 | It 's hard to see how anyone could fail to have been convinced by the arguments put forward by the ‘ pro ’ lobby on Wednesday afternoon . |
| 11 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 13 | Because of ( 1 ) re-programming would need to have been carried out in Bristol . |
| 14 | The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on . |
| 15 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 16 | The corollary is seen where alien plants , contrary to expectation , appear to oust native plants in species-rich environments , where every ‘ niche ’ would appear to have been filled by species evolving more or less in situ to fit those environmental factors . |
| 17 | A vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up , Black Hornet would appear to have been developed on the Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit and tweaked for commercial release . |
| 18 | If it be conceded that the need for legal advice arises from the existence of a legal problem , the difficulties in meeting that need would appear to have been exposed earlier in the chapter . |
| 19 | It would appear to have been adopted in psychoanalysis because of its air of scientific detachment and objectivity , its freedom from the objectionable religious overtones of such terms as ‘ sin ’ and ‘ evil ’ . |
| 20 | Thus the approach of the Royal Commissions would appear to have been justified , but no doubt the ‘ classical conundrum ’ will continue to cause controversy despite Newton 's attempt to shift the discussion to firmer ground . |
| 21 | Similar problems are likely to arise in respect of artificial intelligence systems , or heuristic systems as applied to medical diagnosis where again two paths are open but the possibilities which socially useful design make possible would appear to have been ignored . |
| 22 | This term would appear to have been introduced into Community parlance in the European Parliament 's Draft Treaty on European Union in 1984 , and is already familiar in the context of the 1989 Social Charter . |
| 23 | Whilst blood would appear to have been associated with circumcision from the earliest times ( witness the account of Zipporah in Exodus 4.24–6 ) this character of the rite , as I hope shortly to show , assumed new dimensions and significances with the experience of the exile and the developments which I have just outlined . |
| 24 | P C would have had a revolver that I would expect to have been drawn . |
| 25 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 26 | ‘ I think , ’ said Andrew Ray , ‘ he saw the kind of man he would like to have been had he been straight . |
| 27 | Although I do not have a magic wand , I hope to be able to establish some means of providing the physical back-up that you would like to receive from the Society and to start the ball rolling I am compiling a list of all the ways in which you have been supported or would like to have been supported , in the past plus suggestions for the future . |
| 28 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 29 | But if I am honest I would like to have been born perhaps six or seven years later . |
| 30 | I taught drama in an original and compassionate way , as I would like to have been taught when I was at school . |