Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone .
2 Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick .
3 In their view , we were the hacks he 'd run against and we did n't like being treated that way . ’
4 You 've got a bit wet out here — terrible downpour couple of days ago — but you still do n't mind being kissed last thing at night .
5 A dwelling in Scotland that is placed in band D will have been assigned that band because its value at 1 April 1991 is over £45,000 but does not exceed £58,000 .
6 Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people .
7 The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet .
8 In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way .
9 then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another .
10 Could have been done this morning .
11 By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied .
12 Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime .
13 This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence .
14 Max Jacob believed he should have been given full credit for persuading Modi to return to painting .
15 In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out .
16 Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book .
17 With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start .
18 the Vendor shall be under no liability in respect of any of the Warranties unless the Vendor shall have been given written notice by the Purchaser of a specific breach of the Warranties prior to the second anniversary of Completion ;
19 If I ran home , I should only have been sent straight back , in even deeper disgrace .
20 They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search .
21 ‘ This tour , if it is allowed by the courts , will be the Barnes 's salvation ’ , said National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , ‘ because when it comes back from Paris and Japan , there will be many millions of dollars that will have been generated this way .
22 ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania .
23 The equipment might possibly have been reconstructed pre-Civil War relics .
24 She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’
25 He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century .
26 After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph .
27 It may not have been called formal consultation process .
28 It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it .
29 If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds .
30 In any event one of its major functions will be to ensure some form of trans-binary rationalisation of higher education by close liaison with the UGC and , to that effect , it is important that NAB should have included in its membership an observer from the UGC and that Christopher Ball should have been accorded similar status on the UGC .
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