Example sentences of "that this [vb mod] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The fact that this might have been the case seems to be beyond the imagination of many even of liberal disposition in the church . ) |
| 2 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 3 | Some panel members felt that time spent in discussion of the documentation led to a tight schedule and that this might have been avoided by an additional private meeting on the evening or day before the event . |
| 4 | We suspected that this might have been because Coventry did n't score . |
| 5 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 6 | The Church of England Newspaper said , unkindly , that the weakest part of the Lambeth Conference of 1958 was its report on the Bible ; and that this would have been an excellent report for a Lambeth Conference of 1858 not 1958 . |
| 7 | Neville Sims , chairman of the committee that heard the case , said in the statement ( see p 99 ) that while the case was not easy to decide , ‘ in our opinion the relationship between the individuals in Coopers , Asil Nadir and PPI constituted a clear continuing professional relationship , and had you made proper inquiries before accepting the appointment , that this would have been clear to you ’ . |
| 8 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 9 | Mr. Howell frankly accepted that this would have been the result . |
| 10 | On checking the data , it was clear that this would have been inaccurate , since it would have excluded citations not covered by the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) for the period before 1970 . |
| 11 | Some speculated that this may have been a product of trying to create a hypertext and converting that into text . |
| 12 | There is some evidence that this may have been the case . |
| 13 | It is possible that this may have been the result of overcommitment of advisory staff and thus arisen from difficulties in attending to this detail . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 15 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 16 | ‘ Aurigny ’ is the old French name for the island of Alderney , and it is fitting that this should have been chosen as the airline 's title , since in many ways that rocky islet is the heart of the organisation . |
| 17 | It seems strange at first that this should have been so . |
| 18 | Douglas Kilvington of Kirkstall wrote in querying the ‘ Cufton ’ and making the point that this should have been Clifton . |
| 19 | erm it is a little odd that this should have been so . |
| 20 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 21 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 22 | In the absence of any concrete evidence of an agreement it is unlikely that this could have been done . |
| 23 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 24 | On the river side of the High St. there is an area with a strange name , Great Winox , and what this meant we have been unable to discover , but one theory is that this could have been the ancient vineyard . |
| 25 | It is hardly likely that this could have been true of the greatest of them , Whittington , because his father had died with his estate encumbered by an outlawry incurred in a plea of debt . |