Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A few sinuous ridges are seen , steep on both sides , and these too may have been raised by interior contraction .
2 He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review .
3 Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government .
4 The locations of the recent Kalimantan outbreaks suggest that some may have been rekindled from underground smoulderings dating from at least the mid-80s .
5 In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries .
6 The progression of understanding of various forms of disease can be traced throughout history : Short sight may not have been understood by stone-age man .
7 The move came amid reports that Iraq 's success in initiating its post-war reconstruction programme might have been assisted by systematic sanctions-busting by some countries .
8 The central question is whether animals possess important characteristics that are not adaptive , and which therefore , by definition , would not have been shaped by natural and sexual selection .
9 If usury was wrong in itself then the Israelites would have been prohibited from charging interest on any funds lent , not just funds lent to fellow Jews .
10 the evidence could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence at the trial ; and
11 By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive .
12 He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter .
13 This may partly reflect the fact that many aspects of the situation ( road layout , signs , shops etc. ) were deliberately excluded on the basis that they could have been obtained from previous local knowledge .
14 Whilst some of these drugs may have been obtained by illegal means , the evidence suggests that a significant minority became addicted to opioids originating from a legal source , that is , family practitioners .
15 There is , to my mind , no doubt at all but that the Turnbull & Co. v. Duval [ 1902 ] A.C. 429 line of cases demonstrates a treatment of wives who have given security to support their husband 's debts more tender than that which would have been applied to other third party sureties .
16 Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal .
17 I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all .
18 The dots could have been made in other ways , and hardly noticeable anyway .
19 These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence .
20 Large numbers of hoards would have been deposited by Roman legionaries recruited in Italy but prevented ( for instance , by death ) from returning to recover them .
21 The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible .
22 People who are only mildly mentally handicapped may have been born with average mental abilities , in the sense that there was no identifiable problem inherent in the pregnancy or birth .
23 The gulls you see cadging bread in London parks could just as well have been born in Finnish Lapland as on the North Kent marshes — it 's impossible to tell from their plumage .
24 Course I mean the m fella would have been stabbed to fucking death if he had n't .
25 It is argued that during the dry phases , the humid forests would have been fragmented into island-like refugia ( Figure 7.1 ) of isolated blocks of forest .
26 ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty .
27 What is even worse , however , is that as the two fonts may have been prepared from different masters there could be subtle variations between them — even though they are notionally the same typeface .
28 Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors .
29 Mutually important issues such as Cambodian instability , the security of Taiwan and Hong Kong , and tensions on the Korean peninsula ( which may have prompted the visits ) could have been handled through diplomatic channels without resort to secrecy , Mr Winston Lord , US ambassador to China until this year , pointed out yesterday .
30 Any attack on Beaumaris would have been presented with formidable problems .
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