Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 2 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 3 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 4 | Dunkirk , Boulogne and Calais , through which British munitions and troops could pass in growing numbers , might have been taken at little cost during the Germans ' initial advance , now they would have to be fought for . |
| 5 | Horne could have been killed at any hour . |
| 6 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 7 | It seemed almost impossible to many people that such tiny things as micro-organisms could have been fossilised at all . |
| 8 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 9 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 10 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 11 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 12 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 13 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 14 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 15 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 16 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 17 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 18 | Butler-Sloss LJ said that the meaning of the words " trade secrets " had developed since Herbert Morris v Saxelby and was now interpreted in the wider context of " highly confidential information of a non-technical or non-scientific nature … " . 1.4 The employee 's skill and knowledge Although the courts are anxious to uphold the employer 's right to have his business secrets protected they have ensured that the employee is not prevented from using , once he has left his employer , the general skill and knowledge which he has acquired during employment even though this may have been acquired at some cost to the employer . |
| 19 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 20 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 21 | The police officer agreed Anderson would have been charged at that stage if there had been sufficient evidence . |
| 22 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 23 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 24 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 25 | This will have been achieved at modest cost with , it seems likely , triumphant results . |