Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr has low back pain , sometimes with left sided sciatica , which he 's suffered from since the twenty second of June nineteen eighty eight and which may have been exacerbated by lifting the plaintiff . |
| 2 | Had his plan worked he would have been convicted of obtaining the insurance money by deception through enabling his wife to obtain it . |
| 3 | Correlations calculated this way are generally smaller than those that would have been obtained by correlating the averages but because they do not average out the variance from different subjects they provide a more realistic assessment of the size of an effect for any individual subject . |
| 4 | It was the rule for centuries that if animals ( or at least , ordinary tame animals ) strayed from adjacent land on to the highway neither the owner of the animals nor the occupier of the land was liable for any ensuing damage even though it could have been prevented by controlling the animal or by fencing . |
| 5 | This reduces the effect of the synonyms to a figure that could have been achieved by choosing an initial packing density of just over 33 per cent for the file — but this file is 90 per cent packed . |
| 6 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 7 | Mrs. Hamblin would have been precluded from denying the trader 's authority to sell the car . |
| 8 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 9 | Nearly a century and a half later Alexander II might have been forgiven for feeling an even greater degree of disappointment . |
| 10 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |
| 11 | All their Lordships need to say is that having carefully considered the arguments advanced , in the manner indicated by Griffiths L.J. , they can see no ground upon which Barnett J. would have been justified in taking the decision-making power out of the hands of the district judge , and substituting a decision of his own . |
| 12 | Spears and axes have utilitarian forms , the manufacture of which would have been within the abilities of anyone with basic smithing experience ; both have sockets for handles/shafts which would have been created by beating the iron around a former . |
| 13 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 14 | A greater degree of smoothing could have been produced by increasing the size of the box , but this implies the loss of more detail . |
| 15 | If the injuries would only have been lessened by wearing a seat belt the damages may be reduced by 15 per cent . |
| 16 | If the contract had simply failed to mention these items , they could have been resolved by applying the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 17 | ‘ 'T WAS you , my lady , who would have been dishonoured by killing a guest . ’ |
| 18 | There 's no fingerboard binding , and perhaps a little more care could have been taken in filling the ends of the fret-slots — mind you , that 's practically the only cosmetic flaw on the whole instrument . |
| 19 | Although Folly knew her thoughts should have been occupied in absorbing a myriad pieces of information about the running of the shop , somehow , inevitably , they would slip away . |
| 20 | The APU would not have been accused of exerting a conservative influence with its cross-curricular model ; however , the eventual selection of subjects could have a narrowing effect on the curriculum . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 22 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 23 | 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes . |
| 24 | The shift in information structure could have been avoided by using a pseudo-cleft structure ( a marked but natural structure in Arabic ) . |
| 25 | It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground . |
| 26 | Many of the rights arose on the death of the tenant , especially if there was no heir or the heir was a minor , and could have been avoided by conveying the land to younger adult members of the family , or leaving the land by will . |
| 27 | After all , most of the bust would have been avoided by applying the oldest management technique there is : common sense . |
| 28 | But after that victorious crossing , no time would have been wasted in building a bridge , possibly at first of boats , in the narrower Rochester section of the river . |
| 29 | Discounting is based on the recognition that money received one year hence is worth less than money received today because of the income that could have been earned by investing the capital now . |
| 30 | The main purpose of the meeting is to enable governing body representatives to discuss drug testing , the various issues which are associated with it , and any problems which may have been experienced in administering a drug testing programme . |