Example sentences of "have be put " in BNC.

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1 The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’
2 But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation .
3 Mr Beloff argued that a prima facie case of professional misconduct had been made out and should have been put before the barristers ' disciplinary tribunal .
4 She protested that they should n't have been put on there without her authority , and the farm chaps laughed and said , ‘ You wo n't be wanting that again . ’
5 Wherever the feather came from , it must almost certainly have been put in his room by someone who knew of his visit to the lake .
6 I 'm afraid that a lot of gardeners will have been put off coir by these spurious trials , and I really think Gardening from Which ? should publish a withdrawal .
7 There were suggestions from the American air force that the controls may have been put out of order by the fire which caused the crash and that , even if the pilot had stayed in his cockpit until the collision , he would not have been able to do more .
8 The fact is that the lift worked for ten years with very little maintenance and little stoppage for repairs , except to the track — and even the track could evidently have been put to permanent rights had the study and expenditure been justified .
9 Osbert Lancaster did some memorable cartoons for the V & A 's ‘ Country House ’ exhibition in which he caricatured the unsuitable new uses to which the great houses of fiction might have been put had they existed in real life .
10 This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs .
11 Sewell at least must have benefited by the visits , and the varied material he brought home , including books as well as horseshoes , would surely have been put to use in the Veterinary College .
12 Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs .
13 This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides .
14 The contention would then have been put forward that it was the ‘ god ’ who motivated the human being or beings who actually provided the relief .
15 Finally , the false vocal cord theory is supported by the evidence of the simple action of placing your fingers gently on the throat of a purring cat — there is no doubt , then , that the purring sound is stemming from the region of the voice-box , and it is hard to see why any alternative theory should have been put forward .
16 Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it .
17 The birds and squirrels in my garden come for food as soon as they hear my whistle , even though the food may not yet have been put out for them .
18 As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops .
19 Have you seen this publicity which should have been put through your door ?
20 Under the new Dangerous Dogs Act , Cleo could have been put down , but the court accepted her owner 's plea that she had been deliberately and maliciously let out of a shed , and set a new precedent by allowing the dog to go back to her family .
21 An ordinary person must have been put out by this .
22 If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now .
23 As the reader now knows , and as Willie 's advisers should have told him , there was massive proof that Cooper and McMahon were innocent and should never have been put on trial , let alone convicted .
24 In fact one can often feel Tolkien , between these ‘ low ’ and ‘ high ’ stylistic poles , breaking with complete success out of all the categories into which he should have been put , rising again from the edge of romance to what almost anyone might call ‘ myth ’ .
25 THE fight against terrorism may have been put back years by a monster IRA bomb which wrecked Ulster 's forensic science HQ .
26 By now , anyone ill-informed enough to imagine some elderly Miss Whiplash will have been put right .
27 The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding .
28 Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May .
29 If she was a boy , she says , she would have been put in a young offenders ' institution .
30 This is a Latin phrase meaning the ‘ date after which ’ , and only means that the artefact could not have been put into the spoil after it had been dumped , but of course , could be many years earlier in date .
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