Example sentences of "such [noun pl] [modal v] have be " in BNC.

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1 Whether that contract or those contracts consisted of a time charter , a voyage charter or one or more bills of lading contracts or some or all of such contracts would have been immaterial to the defendants .
2 There are so many periods during which such plateaus could have been formed and dissected that , in the absence of geological evidence in the form of outliers , it is not surprising that theories of origin have varied widely .
3 Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver .
4 And in reality , as the Criminal Statistics for 1990 bear out ( Home Office , 1991a ) , less than a third of such cases would have been dealt with in the magistrates ' courts by means of a custodial penalty at all ( compared with just under two-thirds in the Crown Court ) .
5 Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names .
6 It also appears that just as Belfast speakers can merge pairs like pack and peck , so it is possible that patterns of merger , or near-merger , of such pairs might have been observable in EModE .
7 Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve .
8 The mechanisms of control and the latitude which such schools would have are still unclear and are being studied by the Ministry of Education .
9 Few will quarrel with the general principle that such steps should have been taken in Ulster .
10 Such lists would have been regarded as underground literature during Sir Keith Joseph 's tenure .
11 Such looms may have been present in every household .
12 What the unfettered demand for such subjects would have been , one can only guess .
13 The existence of ( b ) and ( c ) he thought proved by the presence of some biblical texts where the literal sense seemed absurd or contradictory ; such texts must have been placed there as signposts to a spiritual allegorical exegesis .
14 Such attacks may have been counterproductive .
15 An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today .
16 Yet such problems could have been ( indeed , were being ) overcome .
17 Such dresses may have been worn over a sleeved under-dress which generally received no fastenings , with some exceptions which were secured at the wrist with a clasp which may carry evidence of braid ( Crowfoot 1952 ) .
18 Whether such changes would have been acceptable to Contact users is open to speculation since social interaction and individual autonomy were the group 's main attractions .
19 The exercise was given added spice when pupils carried out their tests ( to see which machine could hurl a missile the furthest ) on a site visit to a real medieval castle where such machines would have been used .
20 Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ?
21 It is reasonable to assume that the daughters , particularly the elder ones , of such families will have been brought up to share in household chores .
22 Such arguments would have been powerless , even silly , if everyone thought that the practices they challenged needed no support beyond convention or that these practices constituted the game of law in the way the rules of chess constitute that game .
23 Such sums may have been trivial in comparison with the financial resources at the disposal of the larger American combines , but they provided a base that could have been built on .
24 She backed away , appalled such details should have been passed around so soon , and that people were confronting her with them .
25 Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading .
26 Such decisions must have been the daily stuff of lordship , but they are now usually only visible in the formal context of legal disputes .
27 Such decisions must have been the daily stuff of lordship , but they are now usually only visible in the formal context of legal disputes .
28 However small they were , such payments must have been thought worth collecting .
29 The data presented here also imply that before any conclusions are drawn on biological effects obtained through point mutations in tRNAs , it should be investigated if the base-modification pattern was altered and if such alterations might have been the primary cause of the biological observed effect .
30 The stories of Sigurd and Wayland seem to have been particularly popular , and while , as R.N. Bailey has argued , such carvings could have been attempts to link pagan with Christian belief , one is still driven to the conclusion that they " may have appealed to tastes and interpretations which were based more on the traditions of Scandinavia than the Christian Fathers " .
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