Example sentences of "have be [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 2 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 3 | This explains the abundance of deltaic sediments in the stratigraphical record of the continental areas , but one must also expect that such sediments will either not exceed a critical maximum thickness , such as that suggested above , or they must have been deposited in a tectonically subsiding trough . |
| 4 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 5 | Surely , if you really had not news to report , the space could have been deployed in a much more productive manner — maybe to help some worthy cause or charity . |
| 6 | A clay model from Arkhanes , and dating from the very end of the Minoan civilization , shows the sort of modest shrine that may have been erected in a sacred enclosure : an oval hut with a conical roof , entrance doors and a cult idol inside . |
| 7 | ‘ I regret that this whole matter could not have been handled in a more constructive manner . ’ |
| 8 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 9 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 10 | Baffled , he scratched his greasy white hair and wondered what it could be and why it should have been stored in a beer keg . |
| 11 | If this were true , and if oceanic crust was being generated at all the oceanic ridges in the world at this rate throughout geological history , then the entire present oceanic crust could have been formed in a mere couple of hundred million years , and therefore , without some other kind of process acting , there would be a vast quantity of spare oceanic crust lying around . |
| 12 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 13 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 14 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 15 | It is easy to Find more simple language in which the same ideas might have been expressed in a more humdrum context : delay for procrastinate , for example , or pay for remuneration . |
| 16 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 17 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Our relative losses have been higher than would have been accepted in a listed plc , ’ he says . |
| 19 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 20 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 21 | In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction … |
| 22 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 23 | The old King might have been killed in a plane crash ! |
| 24 | Agitation may have been couched in a vocabulary which spoke of national morality , but it was clear who were being singled out as the recipients of purity action . |
| 25 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 26 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 27 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |
| 28 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 29 | Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found . |
| 30 | I 'll have been feeling in a different way when I 've painted something three months ago , so it would be wrong to go back and work on it again . |