Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 2 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 3 | I 'd have hated to be in your position , a purely physical attraction outweighing personal antipathy , so I just went along with your wishes . |
| 4 | Hill said : ‘ I would have liked to be on the front row , but I think fourth is a pretty good place to be . |
| 5 | He made her angry , but subconsciously she would have liked his approval , would have liked to be on the same terms with him as Joanna was with Ian . |
| 6 | Thus , if the ten students had been given additional tuition , however ineffective , it would have appeared to be of benefit . |
| 7 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 8 | I saw what she was — what she was to me — not what she seemed or would have appeared to be in a photograph or common portrait . |
| 9 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |