Example sentences of "have be [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that she had a secret , ironic intention , but I doubt it : she wished to give souvenirs to a number of people , and that there should be no cause for jealousy between them — though I am told that jealousy arose . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that she had once been a Benedictine nun of the convent of Carrow , which was situated near the church where she eventually had her cell : to this day Benedictine nuns take the title ‘ Dame ’ , the honorary title of any woman of rank at this time . |
| 4 | Was it only hours since she 'd been wishing that it had ? |
| 5 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 6 | I 'd been wondering whether anybody had noticed my presence at all . |
| 7 | Zeki 's results would never have been obtained if he had continued to study V4 cells using spectrally pure light sources that are the tradition in visual system physiology , rather than coloured objects which are the normal source of our colour perception . |
| 8 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 9 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 10 | If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had . |
| 11 | Lives might have been saved if he had not waited about two hours before reporting the crash in April last year . |
| 12 | A leading surgeon told the inquiry that Martin Robinson , 25 , could have been saved if he had been rushed to a neurosurgical hospital after complaining of severe headaches . |
| 13 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 14 | Doctors performing illegal abortions and their assistants would have faced up to two years in prison , although the woman undergoing an abortion would not have been punished unless she had performed it herself . |
| 15 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 16 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 17 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 18 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 19 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 20 | The amount should have been reduced because he had received an advance on his wages . |
| 21 | He reckons the trip would have been smashing if it had been the height of summer but as it was , he saw practically nothing from start to finish . |
| 22 | A lot must have been happening while he had slept . |
| 23 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 24 | Brian Langley , chairman of Athletics Canada , said : ‘ We would have been informed if there had been a positive test on any Canadian athlete . ’ |
| 25 | She knew he was not actually in the red at the bank , but he was pretty near to it at times , although he was now paid a very good salary , much more than Len would ever have been paid if he had still been alive and in the job . |
| 26 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 27 | I had to go upstairs and take the uniform off to brush it , as otherwise it would have been deduced that I had sat in the chair of a gentleman . |
| 28 | Even at forty-five m.p.h. the smell of burning rubber would have been overpowering if they had not had the windows open . |
| 29 | In the case of a woman who elects not to pay the full National Insurance contribution the full National Insurance benefit to which she would have been entitled if she had not so elected is deducted from the sickness allowance . |
| 30 | The resolution authorising the purchase will not be effective if the shareholder proposed to be bought out votes in respect of the resolution and the resolution would not have been passed if he had not done so ( s164(5) ) . |