Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A few sinuous ridges are seen , steep on both sides , and these too may have been raised by interior contraction . |
2 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
3 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
4 | Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this . |
5 | Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government . |
6 | The locations of the recent Kalimantan outbreaks suggest that some may have been rekindled from underground smoulderings dating from at least the mid-80s . |
7 | In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries . |
8 | The progression of understanding of various forms of disease can be traced throughout history : Short sight may not have been understood by stone-age man . |
9 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
10 | The move came amid reports that Iraq 's success in initiating its post-war reconstruction programme might have been assisted by systematic sanctions-busting by some countries . |
11 | If usury was wrong in itself then the Israelites would have been prohibited from charging interest on any funds lent , not just funds lent to fellow Jews . |
12 | the evidence could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence at the trial ; and |
13 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
14 | He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter . |
15 | Whilst some of these drugs may have been obtained by illegal means , the evidence suggests that a significant minority became addicted to opioids originating from a legal source , that is , family practitioners . |
16 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
17 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
18 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
19 | Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal . |
20 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
21 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
22 | Antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured in 17 patients and the question arises if the diagnosis of coeliac disease could have been made with these results alone . |
23 | The coins included in a hoard deposited at a given date will all have been made before that date . |
24 | The dots could have been made in other ways , and hardly noticeable anyway . |
25 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
26 | My only complaint , and I feel it is an important gripe , is that his hand drawn maps interleaving trackbeds with suggested walking route could well have been made by any millipede unfortunate enough to bathe in an inkwell . |
27 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
28 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
29 | Large numbers of hoards would have been deposited by Roman legionaries recruited in Italy but prevented ( for instance , by death ) from returning to recover them . |
30 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |