Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 37(1) Any notice , demand or order against which an appeal might be brought to a county court under this Part of this Act shall , if no such appeal is brought , become operative on the expiration of 21 days from the date of the service of the notice , demand or order , and shall be final and conclusive as to any matters which could have been raised on such an appeal , and any such notice , demand or order against which an appeal is brought shall , if and so far as it is confirmed by a county court judge , or the Court of Appeal , become operative as from the date of the final determination of the appeal . |
| 2 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 3 | Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this . |
| 4 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 5 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
| 6 | Certainly , his intellectual position would not have been jeopardised by such an extension of his arguments . |
| 7 | She could have been assigned to any one of them . |
| 8 | The Bill might have been opposed in all its stages in both Houses of parliament , and altogether you would have had to spend about £1,000 or £1,200 . |
| 9 | In the early 1960s an American writer dubbed Karajan the conductor of ‘ mathematicians [ Bach would probably have been flattered by such an appellation ] and engineers ’ . |
| 10 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 11 | It should have been played by some very good supporting character actress . ’ |
| 12 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 13 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 14 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 15 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 16 | Antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured in 17 patients and the question arises if the diagnosis of coeliac disease could have been made with these results alone . |
| 17 | I have n't checked the erm er wording of today 's programme , but I 've no reason to assume that any mistakes will have been made on that . |
| 18 | The coins included in a hoard deposited at a given date will all have been made before that date . |
| 19 | A similar criticism could have been made against many of Jesus 's parables and sermons and some of his listeners were certainly not of the highest social class . |
| 20 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 21 | My only complaint , and I feel it is an important gripe , is that his hand drawn maps interleaving trackbeds with suggested walking route could well have been made by any millipede unfortunate enough to bathe in an inkwell . |
| 22 | The Roman copies can not have been made from this , since it was not then available ; so it gives the only incontrovertible evidence for an exact replica being made in classical times . |
| 23 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 24 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 25 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 26 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 27 | Such a dramatic movement of peoples could not have been undertaken by any other contemporary transportation method , and must reflect remarkable activity at the hundreds of newly built stations throughout the system . |
| 28 | You may have been born in another country , for instance , and still not feel truly at home in the foreign culture and customs you have come to . |
| 29 | Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments . |
| 30 | For example , one migrant volunteered to organize the meal served at the annual Harvest Home , but he replaced the traditional supper of Orkney dishes with a meal that could have been served in any restaurant in the south of Scotland . |