Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] deal with " in BNC.

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1 The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen .
2 If there was a potential prejudice in reporting any of the proceedings it could have been dealt with by the lesser measure of a postponing order .
3 Usually that results in a lot of wasted time and money as you sort out problems which should have been dealt with before you opened the studio door .
4 The BSS UK dismisses any suggestion that use of the Beltex as a terminal sire will lead to more lambing problems ; so far those who have used Beltex rams for crossing report no more incidence of assisted lambings than would normally have been dealt with .
5 This would have produced the outcome that the manager really wanted , and the overload of work would have been dealt with .
6 Indeed , by the time the Committee has reported , the instrument in question may have been dealt with .
7 This can be confusing ; it would have been nice if each topic could have been dealt with in one place only .
8 True , these property rights could have been dealt with by a determined planner , but the fact remains that they were not .
9 And in reality , as the Criminal Statistics for 1990 bear out ( Home Office , 1991a ) , less than a third of such cases would have been dealt with in the magistrates ' courts by means of a custodial penalty at all ( compared with just under two-thirds in the Crown Court ) .
10 It may seem a little strange that this matter should have been dealt with by means of an interim order intended to regulate the position until a further hearing later this month .
11 The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way , after all counsel involved had been consulted .
12 The matter could and should have been dealt with as set out above .
13 Some of those who had commented on the draft of the new programme , Gorbachev revealed , thought the term should have been entirely removed ; others , on the contrary , thought it should have been dealt with at greater length .
14 The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically .
15 And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way .
16 It seemed to me that the matrimonial question could have been dealt with more sympathetically and with greater understanding , as perhaps Winston Churchill could have handled it .
17 However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly .
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