Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawback to this claim is that the defendant ( usually the manufacturer ) must lie shown to have been negligent . |
| 2 | The East India Company might have liked to have been able to take the same detached attitude as the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 3 | But er I would I would have liked to have been able to done that you know . |
| 4 | I would have loved to have been able to do more to turn that vision into reality . |
| 5 | In many ways , he would have preferred to have been able to give himself over to the delusion and accept it as truth ; but there seemed to be a definite boundary here , and it was n't his choice whether or not he crossed it . |
| 6 | Basically he felt that as Class AA was his freshman project , any exposure to your article would have had to have been indirect via his teachers . |
| 7 | The difference might have been closer but transfers of otherwise non-transferable votes would have had to have been massive in favour of Donnelly in order to ensure his election . |