Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [been] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Turkish baths were quite near our dressing-rooms and we must have been so exhausted one night that we lost our way . |
| 2 | I would n't have thought even he could have been so calculating . ’ |
| 3 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 4 | Oliver still raged impotently , unable to believe that he could have been so mistaken in a woman . |
| 5 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 6 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 7 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 8 | In order to give effect to the original intention of the Directive , the House of Lords held that the Regulations should be construed purposively and read as if after the words " immediately before the transfer " the following words were added " or would have been so employed at the time of the transfer if he had not been unfairly dismissed in the circumstances described in reg 8(1) " , ( ie for a reason in connection with the transfer ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where — ( a ) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person , an institution or any other body , either jointly or alone , under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention ; and ( b ) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised , either jointly or alone , or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention . |
| 10 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 3.5 The expression " the Centre " where the context so admits includes any additional and adjoining land and buildings in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired the freehold or leasehold interest and which shall have been so constructed or acquired to form [ an integral ] part of the Centre |