Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 2 | Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations . |
| 3 | In these circumstances , it was suggested that the auditors should have been aware that Fidelity was vulnerable to a takeover bid and that any possible bidder such as Caparo would be likely to rely on the accounts when deciding whether a bid should be made and that loss would be suffered by such a bidder if the accounts were inaccurate . |
| 4 | With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 5 | If the medical treatment was given negligently , i.e. if the doctor should have been aware that the plaintiff was allergic , then it is likely that the court would treat the medical negligence as a novus actus interveniens which broke the chain of causation . |
| 6 | So he must have been convinced that there really was a lot more where that came from . |
| 7 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 8 | ‘ It must have been obvious that we were n't going to let it slip it seemed that way to me , ’ said Morrissey . |
| 9 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 10 | and we 've , I mean we 've said this on reflection afterwards , as much as we do n't like cutting up plates of sandwiches there must have been some that took home half a dozen |
| 11 | Even is he was n't , he must have been aware that there were some yobs there . |
| 12 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 13 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 14 | Must have been dreadful that though |
| 15 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 16 | In the second appeal , counsel thought it might have been relevant that the accused was shown not only to be the possessor of a deep , gruff voice , but also to hail from a working-class area of Dublin . |
| 17 | Whereas in Aristotle 's day , and indeed for some two thousand years afterwards , it might have been conceivable that extremes of wealth and poverty , and even slavery , could coexist as part of a single society , by the time of Rousseau that was no longer the case . |
| 18 | If the Court of Appeal could have been sure that there was jurisdiction in the House of Lords to have heard B 's unresolved grounds of appeal . |
| 19 | That could have been painful that could you bitch . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , and you 'd have been grateful that I 'd gone . |
| 21 | Some readers may have been shocked that one professor of English should thus refer to another , but these are robust times . |
| 22 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 23 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 24 | It may have been inevitable that the fringes of Labour and the Nationalists would intersect in the aftermath of the election . |
| 25 | And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game . |
| 26 | alderman Hussey was mayor of the City in 1758 and he would have been pleased that his idea of bringing a clean water supply to St. Edmund 's and St. Martin 's Parishes was still quite useful almost 170 years later . |
| 27 | Lady More has told us that her husband would have been pleased that this society has been formed , thus ensuring that the BCR will not be forgotten . |
| 28 | She would have been pleased that the youngsters who come and go will have fond memories of their day in hospital . |
| 29 | Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed . |
| 30 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |