Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [subord] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 2 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 3 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 4 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 5 | Goodman tried to find out by demanding to know how many refugee children had been baptised since they had arrived in this country . |
| 6 | Doctors performing illegal abortions and their assistants would have faced up to two years in prison , although the woman undergoing an abortion would not have been punished unless she had performed it herself . |
| 7 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 8 | Her fingers closed round the small bottle of sleeping tablets Dana had been prescribed when she had stayed with Claudia after a bout of flu . |
| 9 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 10 | However , the authors qualify their findings by pointing out that the group of exposed women was , in fact , only presumed to have been exposed since they had been selected by a computer matching of topical tretinoin prescriptions to pregnant women 3–4 months after their estimated dates of conception . |
| 11 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 12 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 13 | The injuries which had been forgotten when he had levelled his furious accusations . |
| 14 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |
| 15 | There was a kind of tension that perhaps could have been alleviated if they had a couple more people with them , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 17 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 18 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 19 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 20 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 21 | Lives might have been saved if he had not waited about two hours before reporting the crash in April last year . |
| 22 | A leading surgeon told the inquiry that Martin Robinson , 25 , could have been saved if he had been rushed to a neurosurgical hospital after complaining of severe headaches . |
| 23 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 24 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 25 | I think they had been sold before they had been picked . |
| 26 | She would have been soaked if it had been water . |
| 27 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 28 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 29 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 30 | Sugar said his main reaction was one of ‘ relief ’ that the issue had been settled because he had received such abuse from a small section of Tottenham fans . |