Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords held that damages should have been assessed on the basis of the known fact that the plaintiff would in any event have been totally incapable of work as a result of spinal disease from 1976 . |
| 2 | In military terms the problem should have been settled on the first day . |
| 3 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 4 | There is no a priori reason why she should have been modelled on the warlike goddess Minerva ( or Roma ) ; indeed , on an Italian medal made in 1564 , Anglia ( as she then was , before the unification of the kingdoms ) appears as a simple female figure dressed in the ordinary clothes of daily life . |
| 5 | That it should have been modelled on the Temple of Solomon may seem at first sight presumptuous , but it was an age that relished allusion , and Solomon , son of David , was of royal descent , anointed by Zadok the priest , and the king par excellence . |
| 6 | In this situation , the dealer 's liability to the finance company should have been founded on the sale contract between them . |
| 7 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 8 | At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences . |
| 9 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 10 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 11 | As a matter of strict precedent , however , this aspect of the Lonrho case must have been decided on the same factual assumption as that which governed the conspiracy claim , viz . |
| 12 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 13 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 14 | If you can not get to your own branch , you can withdraw between £ 100 and £200 in cash from HICA by presenting your Midland Auto Cheque Card , which must have been issued on a Current Account held at the same branch as your HICA . |
| 15 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |
| 16 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 17 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 18 | The roar might have been heard on the other side of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 19 | The hope might have been based on a number of things . |
| 20 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 21 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 22 | It was suggested that the DG method failed to represent the thematic organisation of the concordances analysed , as the categories that might have been chosen on an ’ intuitive ’ basis do not seem to attract any of the 500 most frequently appearing words of a test item . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We do n't think we do n't think that the citizens of are doing cartwheels at sixty four thousand pound being spent on a benefit bus to tour round this district and certainly if the festival organisers two years ago could commit themselves to breaking even within two years and were happy with that , why have we spent two hundred and forty thousand pound on a festival in when that money , and that 's four hundred thousand pounds worth of money , could have been spent on the salaries and training of our officers who work in children 's homes . |
| 25 | This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides . |
| 26 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 27 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
| 28 | We could have been murdered on the spot , Tom and Maggie and me . |
| 29 | There was consternation that they could have been overlooked on a day commemorating such a vital part of British history . |
| 30 | On the facts of most of them breach of duty could have been established on the conventional ground that the directors had failed to act in good faith for the benefit of the company . |