Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 2 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 3 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 4 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 5 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 6 | ( 2C ) The term implied by subsection ( 2 ) above does not extend to any matter making the quality of goods unsatisfactory ( a ) which is specifically drawn to the buyer 's attention before the contract is made , ( b ) where the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made , which that examination ought to reveal , or ( c ) in the case of a contract for sale by sample , which would have been apparent on a reasonable examination of the sample . |
| 7 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 8 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 9 | They should perhaps have been higher on the agenda than appears to have been the case . |
| 10 | No real consultation would have been necessary on that score . |
| 11 | There would n't have been many on the island then was there ? |
| 12 | If it had been wet it would have been impossible on horseback , but he managed it . |
| 13 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 14 | This means that in the case of a community service order , the court which revokes the order must sentence the offender to a sentence which would have been available on the occasion when the community service order was made , and if it is considering whether the offender qualifies for a custodial sentence for the purposes of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) , must consider his history and attitude on the day when the original order was made . |
| 15 | It would have been better on water , Masklin was told later , but Shrub had brought them down on land . |
| 16 | It might have been Best on the cover but the people behind the scam were more steady fullbacks than dazzling wingmen . |
| 17 | Mordecai spoke with certainty ; and indeed , it was something which no Cairene would have been uncertain on . |
| 18 | There are no age or health conditions for widows , for by definition a woman must have been dependent on her husband . |
| 19 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 20 | Another thought the women looked ‘ tired and sad … dressed in gowns that must have been old on their grandmothers ’ , while the children were dressed in ‘ garments of nondescript purpose and size , but were generally chubby , and gay , as they frolicked in and out among the baskets , bundles , bedding , babies ’ chairs etc , piled waist-high on various parts of the platform' . |
| 21 | Antoine might have been blind on all normal frequencies but he knew how to assemble his do-it-yourself rig by touch and she marvelled at his deftness . |
| 22 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |
| 23 | A king not universally popular , who owed his throne to assassination , must have been sensitive on such an issue , and maybe sometimes nervous of joining large assemblies of armed men . |
| 24 | The site was in a rural area in a particular situation where it might have been acceptable on planning and highway grounds but for the problems of smell and dust . |
| 25 | ‘ I think the war must have been hard on her … particularly while Italy was still part of the Axis ; not least because there was a camp for Italian prisoners of war just beyond our gates in Scotland . |
| 26 | As far as we knew every previous expedition had ferried the sheep by dinghy , a tedious operation which must have been hard on both men and sheep , to say nothing of the dinghy . |
| 27 | The launch of the NHS information management and technology strategy in December may not have been high on the agenda of most practising doctors . |
| 28 | Would of made the job a lot easier might have been high on drugs . |
| 29 | ‘ It would n't have been fair on Alan to ask him to canvass for me before . |
| 30 | It is always interesting to note how handicappers assess maiden race form in comparison with sellers , and in allotting Peak District a 17lb higher rating than Dari Sound , the official may have been over-harsh on the former . |