Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 2 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 3 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
| 4 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |
| 5 | At the same time there was an emphasis upon paternalism to enhance workers ' motivation and promote effective work performance which might otherwise have been impaired by this control strategy . |
| 6 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 7 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 8 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 9 | The first 10 years ' capacity of 7,000 tonnes of spent fuel is taken up and full provision for the decommissioning of all THORP facilities will have been covered during this period . |
| 10 | I think it extremely likely that the plaintiff would have followed the inevitable recommendation from its officers which would have been to proceed with this action in order to avoid paying compensation . |
| 11 | ‘ We could all have been killed on this exercise . |
| 12 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
| 13 | Even though the fear of violence may have been justified in this case , the 30-mile zone and the fact that the disorder was expected to emanate from other than the marchers make the implications of the case disturbing , even in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 15 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |
| 16 | As a teenager , Goldberg was leader of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler in the 1920s ; in the 1970s he was still in fine form , and his recordings should surely have been re-released on this occasion . |
| 17 | He may already have been linked by this date with Earl Richard 's son , Gilbert , eighth Earl of Gloucester [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 19 | It seemed clear , though , that some courses which should have been entered in this section ( referred to in responses to earlier questions , e.g. 1.6 ) were not listed here , so these are almost certainly under-estimates . |
| 20 | But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded . |
| 21 | One of the slave-builders must have been incarcerated behind this hatch as a sacrifice to good fortune — with the chance of squirming his way up that curving conduit to some high exit point , a well-nigh impossible task when fettered . |
| 22 | The industry itself has estimated that 1.75 million cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level wastes will have been produced in this country by the year 2030 . |
| 23 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 24 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 25 | Perhaps the clergyman who eventually did open the door might have been included in this category , surprised though she was to see him . |
| 26 | Meantime according to IDC Europa figures , DEC took a 15% — £52.5m — share of the £350m UK workstation market last year , although more than 50% of those workstations it shipped were configured with VMS or OpenVMS , and few if any Alpha-based models would have been included in this total . |
| 27 | We know that some at least will be cornered in dead-ends by ferrets , but not all the rabbits remaining underground will have been trapped in this way . |
| 28 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 29 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 30 | This building has an entrance opening directly into the farmyard and many of the farm 's activities , such as manure collection , would have been concentrated in this area . |