Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.2 Our terms of reference define attainment targets as : ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ and programmes of study as : ‘ describing the essential content which needs to be covered to enable pupils to reach or surpass the attainment targets ’ . |
| 2 | The Working Group 's terms of reference defined attainment targets as ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ . |
| 3 | Mr. Collins 's primary submission was that , at any rate so far as the eliciting of information from the applicant himself was concerned , the investigative process contemplated by sections 1(3) and 2 of the Act of 1987 must be taken to have come to an end at the time of charge , and to have been replaced by the process of prosecution pursuant to section 1(5) . … |
| 4 | These require that where a company is charged , the mental state ( i.e. of knowledge or recklessness ) must be proved to have existed in the mind of a person who was or formed part of the directing mind of the company . |
| 5 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 6 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 7 | An operation could be said to have increased in efficiency either if fewer inputs were used to produce a given amount of output , or a given level of input resulted in increased output . |
| 8 | The only aspect of play where 'Mere could be said to have played to their ability was in the lineout where Gibbons and Daly won more than their fair share of ball . |
| 9 | Yet at the broadest level the battle-lines could be said to have fallen into this basic pattern . |
| 10 | The ‘ Permissive Society ’ could be said to have begun in the cradles of the Spock babies of the Forties and Fifties , who became the student protestors of the Sixties . |
| 11 | The movement could be said to have started in Scotland in 1972 , when the Headteachers ' Association set themselves to determine the range of items of information needed to produce a comprehensive picture of the aptitudes and interests of all pupils , offering them a common form of statement , which would be generally comprehensible and would be available to them when appropriate . |
| 12 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 13 | An outstanding example of this sort of pattern in our own field is the synthetic fibre business which , historically , could be considered to have started in the days of rayon at the turn of the century . |
| 14 | Those who escaped these earliest of water-rates could be deemed to have got off ‘ scot free ’ . |
| 15 | In times of rising money wages , therefore , workers must first decide whether or not the real wage is rising ( problem ( a ) ) , and secondly decompose any increase in the real wage which may be suspected to have occurred into a permanent component , eliciting minimal labour supply response , and a temporary component , which could elicit a significant rise in the supply of labour services ( problem ( b ) ) . |
| 16 | A wider but related set of matters was brought to the fore around this same period by the ‘ history-of-religions school ’ ( Religionsgeschichtliche Schule ) , which may be reckoned to have begun with Otto Pfleiderer 's Primitive Christianity ( 1887 ; E.T . |
| 17 | ‘ It may be said to have begun with a golliwog , ’ he wrote , ’ and ended with an alsatian bitch' . |
| 18 | Among Christian feminist theologians who may be said to have employed in part a ‘ golden thread ’ approach , although not specifically in relation to the question of ordaining women , is Rosemary Ruether . |
| 19 | Since Wilson 's teachings were a principal inspiration for the Morgan school , the twentieth century science of genetics may be said to have arisen within his Weismannist programme for the integration of evolutionary and cytological theorizing ( Mayr , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) The following classes of cases are usually not subject to the doctrine : ( a ) those which include a restraint which does not involve the convenantor in giving up a freedom which he would otherwise have enjoyed unless the restraint creates a positive duty to do something which restricts his freedom during the period of its operation ; ( b ) those which , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations ; and ( c ) those in which the purpose and nature of the restraint is coterminous with the purpose of the contract . |
| 22 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 23 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 24 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 25 | The person who makes the arrangements with the funeral director may be considered to have entered into a binding contract , and become responsible for the cost , even if they are not related to the deceased . |
| 26 | The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one . |
| 27 | The law granted Estonian citizenship automatically to all Estonians ; immigrants applying for citizenship would be required to have lived for two years in the country . |
| 28 | Section 39 Trustee Act 1925 provides that where a trustee desires to be discharged from the trust and where after his discharge there will be either a trust corporation or at least two individuals to act as trustees , then if the trustee by deed declares that he desires to be discharged and his co-trustees consent , he shall be deemed to have retired from the trust . |
| 29 | If he does nothing , he will be deemed to have opted for the summary statement . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding the growing power of the Congress movement , he entertained high expectations of the new policy in fostering the seeds of devotion to the empire in the Indian people , believing in the face of all the evidence that the reforms would create conditions whereby ‘ one day the greater love of the greater Commonwealth will be found to have come without observation ’ . |