Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present case disclosure by Mr. and Mrs. Tully of their dealings and documents with the affairs and money of Abbey and its subsidiaries will enable the plaintiffs to complete their investigation and to trace the fate of moneys paid by Wessex and moneys which were received or ought to have been received by Abbey and to recover such moneys and to recover damages for any wrongful dealings with those moneys . |
| 2 | One of the circumstances which was known , or ought to have been known , to the parties at the time they were entering into the contract was that in certain circumstances the clause would clearly be unenforceable ( namely , in the area of liability for death or personal injury ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 4 | The mischief alleged is that offenders were allowed to commit further offences which would or may have been obviated had they been arrested earlier . |
| 5 | A particular fish either ends up on its own because it has been badly injured , or has lost its mate , or may have been bought on impulse , the reasons are many and varied . |
| 6 | There is in my judgment no objection to the decisions attacked in this case on the ground that they were or may have been taken by junior ministers rather than by the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | A proposal for a Private Member 's Bill may emanate from the Member himself , or may have been urged upon him by another Member or Members , or by an outside pressure or interest group . |
| 8 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 9 | Also exempt would be a contract which could or should have been governed by one of the systems of law in the UK , where s 27(2) ( b ) does not apply , and the parties have chosen a foreign proper law for a genuine reason other than evasion of the UCTA ( eg because the other party was a foreigner who insisted on using the law of his own jurisdiction as the governing law of the contract ) . |
| 10 | Miss Williamson , for the bank , submitted that agency only was insufficient to found liability ; there must also be notice on the part of the creditor that undue influence would or might have been exercised . |
| 11 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 12 | The Soviet press stressed that during the Soviet Iranian talks ‘ no agreement resembling what the Iranian Minister is now saying was or could have been reached ’ . |
| 13 | Exclamatory sentences such as these express a critical judgement of the occurrence of the happening which the infinitive denotes , and so present it as something which should or could have been avoided . |
| 14 | Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and " horridness ' , in Frizingley . |
| 15 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 16 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 17 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 18 | The that condition should or would have been drawn to his attention , that is the major factor in this dispute which goes . |
| 19 | It was a technological triumph and a magnificent intelligence coup , or would have been had the Russians not know about it all the time . |
| 20 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 21 | He was a patient with well documented milk sensitivity that was not persistent and may have been related to activity of disease . |
| 22 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 23 | The text of Stella celi is an invocation for deliverance from plague , and may have been written in the summer of 1479 , when an outbreak assailed the staff of St George 's ; beyond this , no chronology for his work can be suggested . |
| 24 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 25 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that this form derives from that of the structure of the human eye itself , and may have been conceived by the theologist Fra' Paolo Sarpi , who collaborated on eye research in 1581–84 with Girolamo Fabrizio d'Acquapendente . |
| 27 | For example , a woman in an abusive relationship might be too frightened of her partner to intervene , and may have been threatened to prevent her telling the police or the court what happened . |
| 28 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 29 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 30 | The knife handle was found in Colchester and may have been used by a legionary . |