Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |
| 2 | The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way onto Robert Lee 's left boot . |
| 3 | The representation must have been made intentionally or negligently . |
| 4 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 5 | Each of those payments would have been made even if they were not lawfully in possession … |
| 6 | A layer high in the sequence will have been deposited later than a lower one , and , provided there has been no disturbance , the artefacts in the higher level will be younger than those underlying . |
| 7 | John can not therefore have been born later than 1236 . |
| 8 | may have been enrolled more than once for the module |
| 9 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 10 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 11 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 12 | Parental awareness of this clinical problem is low , and since this population is highly mobile , some families may not have been seen regularly or counselled . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , it must have been raining miserably when they went through here . ’ |
| 14 | to misinterpret religious people 's behaviour and commitment ; 2. to take literally what may have been intended metaphorically or symbolically ; 3. not even to see the possibility of the truth of religious concepts . |
| 15 | The plaintiff 's remuneration may have been based partly or even wholly on commission on orders obtained , or in the case of more senior employees upon the turnover of the business or some part of the business . |
| 16 | Such tasks may have been stated so that they are open to interpretation and worded so that they are accessible to most pupils , rather than aimed at a notional difficulty level . |
| 17 | Although the points made in extract ( 11 ) could have been expressed objectively as statements that certain buildings in certain locations are more beautiful since restoration , both speakers relate such statements to personal experience . |
| 18 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 19 | In both studies the authors emphasised that most of the pyloric stenoses could have been diagnosed clinically and that many of the imaging studies performed were not only unnecessary but also not cost effective . |
| 20 | Thus , if the Insured can demonstrate that thought was given to the safety of the property the duty will usually have been fulfilled even if subsequent events show that the precautions taken were inadequate . |
| 21 | Thus , if the Insured can demonstrate that thought was given to the safety of the property the duty will usually have been fulfilled even if subsequent events show that the precautions taken were inadequate . |
| 22 | Denning J. hints that Foakes v. Beer ( 1884 ) might have been decided differently if the fusion of law and equity by the Judicature Acts 1873–1875 had been considered . |
| 23 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 24 | First , they have argued that the gradual increase in peasant investment and in levels of consumption both of food and consumer goods in the countryside suggests that , abjectly poor though many were , on average peasant living standards may have been rising rather than falling in the decades immediately prior to the revolution of 1905 . |
| 25 | ‘ Someone could have been hiding here when we came into the church earlier today . |
| 26 | Data accumulated subsequently suggests that the M 52 could have been flown safely and might have given the British aircraft industry a commanding lead in supersonic fighter development . |
| 27 | Evgeny Onegin would have been written even if Pushkin had never existed , claims Brik , just as America would have been discovered without Columbus . |
| 28 | As well as being appropriately dressed you should also be aware that you may have been noted even while looking at the agency 's window display . |
| 29 | It could have been turned away if we had n't been told . |
| 30 | It is sad that he could not have been turned so as to face his favourite church . |