Example sentences of "have been [adj] [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these , if asked , would have been unwilling to support any increase in attainment testing or in subjective assessment of character , but their expressed unease about testing could help to feed that of others , who would then fall back on what had ‘ worked ’ in the past . |
| 2 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 3 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 4 | It might have been difficult to prove that librarians themselves took the initiative for the censorship , although many would have been pleased to make that claim . |
| 5 | I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion , but could find very little evidence of improvements . |
| 6 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 7 | Erm but I I would have thought that it would have been necessary to examine that sector against all the others before reaching any conclusion as to whether or not i it could be more successfully assimilated into the landscape of that sector as opposed to anywhere else . |
| 8 | In one case , however , a misunderstanding of what are admittedly very unclear social security regulations meant that the minimum period was twice as long as would have been necessary to satisfy this objective . |
| 9 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 10 | The draw cost Norwich crucial points in the championship race and assistant manager John Deehan said : ‘ It would have been nice to close that gap at the top because we now find ourselves a bit adrift . |
| 11 | It would have been nice to get another couple of matches under my belt for Wimbledon . ’ |
| 12 | It would have been nice to get another couple of matches under my belt for Wimbledon . ’ |
| 13 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
| 14 | It is known that they used ink — there are clay cups with ink inscriptions inside them — and it would have been natural to use that ink for cursive writing on a material such as parchment or papyrus . |
| 15 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 16 | Any of them might have died prematurely , he might not have been able to earn these sums , and other misfortunes might have occurred so allowance must be made for this . |
| 17 | She must have been able to lick enough water to keep alive , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
| 19 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |
| 20 | Over such a period , as has already been apparent with Polaris , if we had only had three , we should not have been able to maintain that programme . |
| 21 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 22 | The headmaster may not have been able to groom many boys for Oxbridge scholarships , but he did love his sport . |
| 23 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 24 | Moreover , they would have been unlikely to make any connection between what was happening in their adult relationships and what had happened during childhood . |
| 25 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 26 | The chairmen , jealous of their independence , would have been happy to see less uniformity in practice , but as the requirements of justifying the industry 's policies to Whitehall became more apparent , they accepted ( albeit often reluctantly ) the Central Authority 's point that consistency between Boards was easier to defend than were individual policies which each Board considered right . |
| 27 | Inspector Reg White , of Holloway Police , said yesterday that his force , which was in charge of the drawn Portsmouth-Liverpool semi-final the Sunday before last , would have been happy to stage another replay at two or three days notice provided that certain financial requirements were met . |
| 28 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |
| 29 | Assignment by statute is governed by the Law of Property Act 1925 , s136 which provides that : Any absolute assignment by writing under the hand of the assignor ( not purporting to be by way of charge only ) of any debt or other legal thing in action , of which express notice in writing has been given to the debtor , trustee or other person from the assignor would have been entitled to claim such debt or thing in action , is effectual in law ( subject to equities having priority over the right of the assignee ) to pass and transfer from the date of such notice : ( a ) the legal right to such debt or thing in action ; ( b ) all legal and other remedies for the same ; and ( c ) the power to give a good discharge for the same without the concurrence of the assignor . |
| 30 | In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed . |