Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be [verb] have " in BNC.

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1 9.20 Limitation on liability Before leaving the provisos it may be worthwhile to include the following additional proviso : On an assignment of this Lease in pursuance of the Landlord 's licence authorising the assignment the Landlord shall forthwith at the assignor 's cost release the assignor from its future liability under this Lease in such form as the Landlord shall reasonably require Although this is unlikely to find favour with the landlord , it should perhaps be considered having regard to a recession and the outcry from tenants who , having assigned their leases , are being called upon to pay accumulating back rents as a result of the insolvency of the current tenant .
2 , John ( d. ante Feb. 1315 ) , popularly regarded as a saint , should not be assumed to have come from the village in Kent of that name .
3 The principle , adopted in 1834 , that wages should not be subsidized had been carried forward in social security legislation , but the margin between the income of those in work and those out of work sometimes made the principle of ‘ less eligibility ’ appear under threat .
4 They must always be seen to have sufficient room in which to manoeuvre if they are to create a spaciousness for the most difficult changes in épaulement as pose follows pose .
5 She should also be encouraged to have as many outside interests as possible .
6 If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . …
7 Thus , analysing the attempt by political philosophers to justify the exclusion of women from public life on the grounds of their defective capacities ( either rational , moral or cognitive ) , she suggests that there is a hidden argument which takes the exclusion of women to be unquestionable and attempts to justify the status quo by seeking an explanation in the defective capacities that women must then be assumed to have .
8 Neither Nicaragua297 nor any other State had challenged the statements , and they must therefore be deemed to have accepted the classification .
9 The existence of this silent period is to be expected in virtually all natural acquisition settings , but in a formal classroom setting the individual may not be allowed to have a silent period .
10 Since clerics had been essentially servants of the Crown rather than of the Church , the change may not be thought to have made much difference .
11 Again , in order to preserve the assumption of relevance , an inference must be made about who is to do what : since the last mention of someone doing something involved B going to A , that is presumably what A intends , and may thus be taken to have meant .
12 ‘ They do n't show us that he 'd been anywhere he might not be expected to have been , if you see what I mean .
13 It will cover any expenses reasonably incurred and any loss of benefit which you might reasonably be expected to have had but for the dismissal .
14 To conclude , therefore , the enforcement of essentially procedural decision-making standards is within the capacity of the courts and might reasonably be expected to have beneficial effects .
15 However , since all readers of Update might reasonably be expected to have a keen interest in training issues , the Training and Development Lead Body ( TDLB ) has been chosen to illustrate how at least one such organisation has taken up the challenge to develop qualifications for its sector .
16 In one sense it might also be said to have laboured to produce a mouse .
17 Internally generated stimuli ( such as feelings of hunger , thirst or sexual arousal ) might also be expected to have an effect on dream content .
18 The destructive sadist might well be thought to have an essential self-hatred , even a death-wish which he or she projects on to others in the infliction of damage .
19 Lewis 's statement , which wrote off the competition , was allowed to pass unnoticed , and the whole embarrassing affair , much to the Government 's relief , might well be forgotten had it not been for the persistence of Beresford Hope .
20 Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter .
21 These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age .
22 One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake .
23 The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence .
24 They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law .
25 The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future .
26 But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’
27 The House of Lords said that punctual payment required payment on the Friday , if the banks were closed on the Saturday and Sunday , and that the owners could not be said to have waived the breach simply because their bank had accepted the payment order .
28 In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others .
29 In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it .
30 First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover .
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