Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | The opportunity should have been a real opportunity of doing something effective . |
| 3 | It is arguable that the opportunity should have been taken to deal with this matter by way of criminal penalties . |
| 4 | Carson concludes , after carefully researching the individual incidents which constituted this high rate of fatality ( as well as those involving serious injuries ) that the majority could have been avoided if the ‘ political economy of speed ’ had not been allowed to supersede the ‘ political economy of employees lives and limbs ’ . |
| 5 | I do not think that the conch would have been thought of or used , at least to start , but the girls would have probably got together into one large group as the boys did , although with sub-divisions of especial friends . |
| 6 | Last September Mrs McIvor reported that complaints had dropped by 25pc , but that the reduction may have been because the public is not fully aware of her work . |
| 7 | John Cresswell said the Labour group had chosen to pay for repairs on homes in Cockerton when the funding should have been more widely distributed . |
| 8 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 9 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 10 | That may have the effect of rendering innocent activities which prior to the change would have been an actionable nuisance : Allen v. Gulf Oil Refining Ltd. [ 1980 ] Q.B . |
| 11 | Alternatively , the change may have been made by Wulfstan himself , in much the same way that in his different records of the Enham meeting he omitted from VI Æthelred death penalties contained in V Æthelred . |
| 12 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 13 | Even for an experienced choreographer , the suspense could have been hair-raising . |
| 14 | The credit note may also cover the cost of pallets , crates and packaging materials returned to the manufacturer , which the retailer would have been charged for on the original invoice . |
| 15 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 16 | The entire body of the dinosaur would have been pivoted around the hip girdle . |
| 17 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 18 | I think it is important to remember that if they complied with the properly doc adopted and formulated town plan then the permission would have been granted , obviously subject to details and . |
| 19 | The winner must have been beyond price . |
| 20 | A judge should be obliged when passing sentence to state what the sentence would have been but for the plea of guilty . |
| 21 | The judge told him that the sentence would have been longer if his victim had been permanently scarred . |
| 22 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 23 | The sentence could have been much worse . |
| 24 | The sentence could have been higher . ’ |
| 25 | Here the verb should have been " were " because of plural " references " . |
| 26 | Above all , whoever occupied the throne would have been subject to the powerful pressure that Nicholas experienced from the United Nobility , the Orthodox Church and reactionary leaders of the Right . |
| 27 | By that time the money may have been dissipated . |
| 28 | Investigators say it 's possible the money may have been taken to Iraq or Turkey to buy refugee supplies on the spot . |
| 29 | Most of the money would have been spent or committed . |
| 30 | As one villager said , perhaps the money would have been better spent ensuring it had not been dumped in the first place . |