Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [vb pp] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 2 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 3 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 4 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 5 | How much time should have been allocated to that job/ activity ? |
| 6 | She knew , before the talkative nurse had told her so , that it would have been squeezed to that shape by her own body giving birth . |
| 7 | Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well . |
| 8 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |