Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 2 | But for the fact that the rioters supported the Government , itself widely believed to regard the riots with tacit approval , it could have been said that the country was on the point of revolution . |
| 3 | If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . … |
| 5 | It will have been noticed that the Ligurians , in whose territory the city had been founded , bore the very Celtic name of Segobrigii . |
| 6 | It will have been noted that the rhythms of body temperature and alertness are timed very similarly with higher values in the daytime and lower values at night ( compare figs 1.2 and 1.3 ) . |
| 7 | It may already have been established that the child is likely to be mentally handicapped ; it may , for example , be known to be brain damaged , or Down 's . |
| 8 | Interesting and indeed impressive as it might have been to learn that the drinking water was purified through an electric purifier , and that the shower contained a tension-soothing massage attachment , everything paled into insignificance beside her overwhelming desire to give her loathsome husband 's shins a very painful kick ! |
| 9 | Might not the Buddha have been saying that the self is none of these constituents , nor all of them in combination , but something other , something that owns , uses and directs these faculties ? |
| 10 | A sentence or two later — and unfortunately all the evidence suggests that few readers get that far — they would have been informed that the hitherto obscure ‘ Cosmic Background Explorer ’ satellite , known to astronomical aficionados as ‘ Cobe ’ , had discovered mysterious ripples in the equally mysterious cosmic microwave background radiation . |
| 11 | On those occasions when dependence on the providence of some undefined ‘ god ’ has apparently been effective and some relief from troubles apparently obtained , it could have been shown that the relief came , in reality , from a human source . |
| 12 | It might have been anticipated that the Criminal Law Revision Committee would seek to put an end to this uncertainty , particularly since , if any guiding principle has informed its final report , it is that the law should distinguish firmly between consensual and non-consensual sexual activity . |
| 13 | If complete public openness is the policy , it might have been expected that the public would have free access to governors ' meetings so that they could hear the arguments for policy and resource allocations within the school . |
| 14 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 15 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 16 | This is further emphasised by s2(6) of the Act , which provides that in any prosecution for publishing an obscene article , " the question whether an article is obscene shall be determined without regard to any publication by another person , unless it could reasonably have been expected that the publication by the other person would follow from the publication by the person charged . " |
| 17 | Heminge may merely have been indicating that The Winter 's Tale was unlikely to prove controversial to a censor in whatever version it was performed . |
| 18 | It may even have been envisaged that the holder of the office would act as , in some sense , chief adviser to the sultan on matters pertaining to the sacred law , although a point to be noted in this connection is that both Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan lived in Bursa while the sultan resided for the most part in Edirne . |
| 19 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 20 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 21 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 22 | It might have been thought that the massive level of population decline experienced by Britain 's cities since the 1960s , principally affecting their inner areas as it did , would have helped to reduce these problems . |
| 23 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |