Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 2 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 3 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 4 | McQueen found the ruins , and then claimed to trace the road along which the goddess 's statue would have been borne in procession from the temple to the river for the ceremonial washing attributed to worship of Anaitis . |
| 5 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |
| 6 | And he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by muse . |
| 7 | If the term disorganized capitalism is useful in describing a new set of relations , then some of these relations have changed at a level which might traditionally have been assigned to superstructure — at the levels of ideology or civil society , although these terms will require subsequent careful discussion . |
| 8 | The octopus may have been speared by torchlight at night , just as it is today . |
| 9 | The utility that would have been obtained with certainty prior to the union setting its monopoly wage rate must now be modified to take into account the uncertainty that is introduced with the unemployment probability . |
| 10 | The second crucial question is whether these results could have been obtained without deception . |
| 11 | For example , only three funds — Newton Income , Touche Remnant City of London and Britannia Life American Growth — achieved higher returns over five years than the £162 that could have been obtained without risk by placing £100 in the building society . |
| 12 | Thereafter we head south again through coastal plain and adjoining mountains , through pineapple country , eucalypt forest , seaside resort , along freeways and dirt roads with houses here and there that might have been obtained through mail-order catalogues . |
| 13 | Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic . |
| 14 | The entry would have been obtained by fraud in the presenting of a forged transfer for registration . |
| 15 | The registration would not have been obtained by fraud . |
| 16 | These grounds would have been applied to paper , parchment or wood , much like traditional gesso , in as many as nine layers . |
| 17 | This is another case in which the Woolwich principle could readily have been applied in favour of the plaintiff had it existed . |
| 18 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 19 | He could tell nothing from their faces ; they could have been made of stone . |
| 20 | They might have been made of stone . |
| 21 | I was out of my element , and the air itself could have been made of gold for all the use it was to me . |
| 22 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 23 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 24 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 25 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 26 | A party receiving a payment which should have been made into court shall forthwith notify the proper officer in writing and pay the money received into court ( Ord 11 , r 1A ) . |
| 27 | It was a monumental folly , which could have been made for horror films . |
| 28 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 29 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 30 | As no order will have been made in respect of the property at this stage , the defendant appears to be free to dispose of it before the order can be made and thus defeat the object of making the order . |