Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course I mean the m fella would have been stabbed to fucking death if he had n't . |
| 2 | Its training grant scheme represents a commitment of £3 million that has helped secure inward investment and 3,300 jobs which could otherwise have been lost to other areas . |
| 3 | One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 7 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
| 8 | In another mood he might have been goaded to further efforts by her extremely obvious , even insulting , indifference , but now , if anything , he was inclined to give her credit for it . |
| 9 | People living near about 50 American weapons manufacturing and testing sites may also have been exposed to carcinogenic radiation , the fund said . |
| 10 | Indeed there have been several recent cases ( for example , ones involving alleged sexual abuse ) in which wide-ranging injunctions have been issued to protect the welfare of children who may otherwise have been exposed to unwelcome publicity . |
| 11 | By Spring of this year our beloved M twenty five will already have been widened to four lanes from the M three to the M forty and in November the Department of Transport 's plans for the three lane link roads between the section between the M four and M forty were displayed locally in Uxbridge and places like that . |
| 12 | A number of Group companies completed reviews of their environmental performance and by the end of 1993 , this will have been extended to all companies . |
| 13 | It is a pity that this civilized sort of arrangement could n't have been extended to more cities . |
| 14 | The consequence of those legal manoeuvres is to deny other London boroughs a massive capital receipt which could have been put to good use on behalf of charge payers . |
| 15 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 16 | As far as national activities are concerned we have the greatest difficulty in getting a delegate to attend the tri-annual meeting in Birmingham this year and many members thought the money spent could have been put to better use . |
| 17 | The fact is that the lift worked for ten years with very little maintenance and little stoppage for repairs , except to the track — and even the track could evidently have been put to permanent rights had the study and expenditure been justified . |
| 18 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 19 | How much time should have been allocated to that job/ activity ? |
| 20 | It is possible , though , that some self referrals and patients who did not consult their own doctor during the course of their attack may not have been notified to participating practitioners and thus were excluded from the study . |
| 21 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 22 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 23 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 24 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 25 | But after the sack of Athens by Sulla and the destruction of the Seleucid state by Pompey the taste for the quiet contemplation of world history which Posidonius encouraged must have been confined to provincial corners like Rhodes itself , or Agyrium , the Sicilian birthplace of Diodorus . |
| 26 | It is the lower after-tax interest rate that measures the social opportunity cost of resources that could have been devoted to private consumption . |
| 27 | In addition , important regulators of platelet function , such as prostacyclin and cyclic AMP , may have been degraded to inactive products during the time taken to prepare platelet-rich plasma . |
| 28 | However , once the properties of the alloy were appreciated , the ores were no doubt deliberately selected , or arsenic minerals may have been added to molten copper . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well . |