Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no accident that the ingenuous and unpretentious Lady Clavering should have left to professionals the task of deciding what is , and what is not , good taste . |
| 2 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps we should have talked to humans , ’ she said aloud . |
| 4 | Bats must have come to terms with the jamming-avoidance problem long ago . |
| 5 | It 's we halberdiers who 'll have to get to grips with them . |
| 6 | It 's something you 'll have to come to terms with yourself . ’ |
| 7 | They have n't started packing their suitcases yet , but they fear it may be inevitable and they 'll have to come to terms with a completely new existence . |
| 8 | The total impression is a nice balance between the colloquial , which might have led to bathos , and an over-polished style which would not have been appropriate to the subject . |
| 9 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 10 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 11 | Competition between different groups of dolphins might have led to extinctions in some groups , but there is no direct evidence . |
| 12 | Throughout the tours rugby enjoyed this elevated profile but , overblown and sometimes fanatical as this media coverage might have appeared to outsiders , nothing in South Africa is quite what it seems when you peer beneath the surface . |
| 13 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 14 | ‘ I could have gone to Wolves , ’ Kelly admitted . |
| 15 | ‘ She could have gone to friends , or just driven up to London , ’ Fraser defended himself . |
| 16 | I think Shrewsbury have done very very well , they conceded a goal very early on in the game and they could have gone to pieces but they gathered themselves together , got back in the game with a goal from and they 've done themselves proud so far . |
| 17 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 18 | Only property was damaged , but the fires could have spread to houses nearby and endangered life . |
| 19 | Certainly it was more localized ( by town ) than its counterpart in England , and the relative autonomy of local unions may have contributed to weaknesses in the early days . |
| 20 | Well , the sun may have turned to storms today , but the drought goes on . |
| 21 | pointed up the risk that the panel may have to respond to shareholders demands to make the company spend money on more external work : ‘ While most shareholders will act responsibly , anybody who has attended an AGM knows there will always be someone with a bee in his or her bonnet . ’ |
| 22 | The stories of Sigurd and Wayland seem to have been particularly popular , and while , as R.N. Bailey has argued , such carvings could have been attempts to link pagan with Christian belief , one is still driven to the conclusion that they " may have appealed to tastes and interpretations which were based more on the traditions of Scandinavia than the Christian Fathers " . |
| 23 | 3600 BP and then remained constant , or it may have oscillated to positions above and below present levels ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 24 | Parents may have to come to terms with this , and accept the partner , in spite of the many problems such a relationship causes for others in the family . |
| 25 | To use the argument from error without that assumption we would have to point to cases when we mistakenly took there to be another mind present . |
| 26 | Most women would have gone to pieces , coming back to find this . ’ |
| 27 | I would have gone to police headquarters that morning around about four A M and er from there onwards to where the briefing was . |
| 28 | The White House , critics argue , failed to follow up the bomb theory because of the risk that it would have posed to negotiations with Iran for the release of US hostages in Lebanon . |
| 29 | Under the law before 1968 the facts of this case would have led to charges , to which there would have been no defence , of obtaining goods by false pretences . |
| 30 | [ This would have led to difficulties in checking citations to related papers in the present study ] . |