Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 2 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 3 | The Colonel had taken Sophia under his wing as a frail and dependent woman , who because of her son 's lack of responsibility must work , when she should have been maintained in comfort . |
| 4 | It was natural that man 's relationship to God should have been expressed in covenant terms . |
| 5 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |
| 6 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 7 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that , although the definition of ‘ family proceedings ’ in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 did not specifically refer to the provisions in Part III of the Act , the section was to be read with section 92(2) of the Act which made it clear that all applications to the justices under the Act were family proceedings ; that , accordingly , the application to the justices for a secure accommodation order under section 25 in Part III of the Act were family proceedings ; and that , therefore , the statements of evidence and the psychiatrist 's report should have been admitted in evidence in accordance with the provisions of the Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( post , pp. 91E–G , H — 92A ) . |
| 9 | He , family name of Maclean , should have been addressed in common with all lairds by his title — thus , Macleod , Laird of Raasay was known as ‘ Raasay ’ , to distinguish him from all other Macleods . |
| 10 | The purpose should have been notified in advance so that those attending are able to assemble any information they need . |
| 11 | Baggage Condition 2 also requires that the transport company , authority or hotel should have been notified in writing . |
| 12 | I hope that the Minister can give an assurance that there is no risk that information that should have been entered in respect of one individual is recorded in the name of another . |
| 13 | The Bill should have been investigated in Committee . |
| 14 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 15 | Because insufficient allowances were allocated , the union argues , the local education authorities used much of the money that should have been paid in incentive allowances to classroom teachers to pay the senior staff their incentive entitlements . |
| 16 | The money , which should have been paid in advance , is owed for the final term of 6 girls who 've since left the college . |
| 17 | Notice to produce the document must have been given in order to render oral evidence of it admissible ; it must be shown that the document existed , is or was in the possession of the other side , and that the original would have been admissible and relevant . |
| 18 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 19 | Only Pliny the Elder interrupts the silence by telling us that a Zachalias Babyloniensis — surely a Jew called Zacharias — wrote a book dedicated to Mithridates ( Eupator ? ) on the influence of precious stones on human destiny : this must have been written in Greek ( N.H. 37.60.169 ) . |
| 20 | But the amount of Aramaic literature which went into international circulation must have been limited in quantity and variety . |
| 21 | There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief . |
| 22 | At least one development must have been installed in LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance . |
| 24 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 25 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |
| 26 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 27 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 28 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 29 | Since their prime purpose was to stable horses , and perhaps to accommodate their grooms ( though this could have been done in hay lofts at first-floor level ) , it is instructive to consider the space needs . |
| 30 | But for his weakness and vacillation , peasant unrest and working-class militancy could have been kept in check by efficient and unwavering repression . |