Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am sorry to have caused trouble .
2 Because they are likely to have damaged storage organs and growing points as well , the capacity of the plants to recover is slowed .
3 The Culpeppers owned the vast and neighbouring estate of Bedgebury and are likely to have bought Pattenden to extend their property .
4 As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider .
5 He would also have been happy to have found work as a production manager or an assistant director .
6 He says that Churchill had told them they could be proud to have mined coal for the war effort .
7 Bookwatch managing director Peter Harland commented : ‘ We are pleased to have added Cable TV to the many media who use our lists .
8 We were fortunate to have obtained funding for the project from the Gatsby Trust and from Guy 's Hospital Special Trustees .
9 ‘ Just before the battle , James is supposed to have made love to Lady Heron .
10 It was not clear how this infringement is supposed to have taken place since the constitutional court has not ruled on it ( as it should ) .
11 Line B adds precision to line A , and line G to line B. What is not specified in line A is when Israel 's coming to know and hearing is supposed to have taken place .
12 A higher proportion of victims is likely to have suffered injury of this sort .
13 Consider the following : their own play ( which is likely to have involved role play — though this is certainly not always the case )
14 The " other ground " must not be so fanciful or remote that the proferens canot be supposed to have desired protection against it ; but subject to this qualification … the existence of a possible head of damage other than that of negligence is fatal to the proferens even if the words used are prima facie wide enough to cover negligence .
15 According to the Open Software Foundation 's Open Road plan ( UX No 391 ) , it 's supposed to have started work on developing an object-oriented Next Generation User Environment , UEC II .
16 Though Edie became Vita 's final lover , and was with her when she died , she is unlikely to have treated homosexuality with anything more than tacit acceptance .
17 As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it .
18 Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university .
19 It is essential to have written confirmation from the booker or the venue of all the arrangements about your gig .
20 long is it since it was supposed to have gone bust ?
21 I mean it 's it 's , how long is it since it was supposed to have gone bust ?
22 They were told nothing else ; only later they heard the abuse was supposed to have taken place outside the family .
23 The quarry on South Ronaldsay where the alleged abuse was supposed to have taken place .
24 The flotation was supposed to have taken place last Autumn , but it was postponed until NIE secured funding from the EC for the under-sea power cable which will link Northern Ireland with the Scottish electricity grid .
25 It was infuriating to have let anger steal his tongue as it had .
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