Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should have seen to this . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes she fell into their style — endless crisis-discussions and grumbling about how other members of the family had behaved , or should have behaved to each other . |
| 3 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 4 | Some mammalian families must have migrated to that continent and evolved there in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 5 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 6 | And he must have gone to those churches for the first time . |
| 7 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 8 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 9 | He must have agreed to all this . |
| 10 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 11 | She had smelly white plastic miniskirts with heavy steel chain belts that must have belonged to some fetishist , and acrylic ribbed halter-tops clinging to her almost concave tits . |
| 12 | This was hardly a comparison to Æthelred 's advantage , and must have occurred to many , who would doubtless have further agreed with Ælfric that a just war was one " against the cruel seamen or against other nations who desire to destroy our homeland " . |
| 13 | We have recently had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with the present writer in residence , Joy Hendry , as our visiting speaker , and have savoured but a taste of the feast of enviable experience that she in particular , and others of similar calibre , must have afforded to those lucky enough to live in the Stirling area . |
| 14 | Plainly , since he had been aware that she had ‘ run away ’ from him , he must have still been in Prague that morning , and must have returned to that hotel suite some time after she 'd left . |
| 15 | It 's most unlikely you could prove it , she 'll have seen to that . |
| 16 | I think , even more frightening the fact that she might have succumbed to this chap . |
| 17 | The British Company might have agreed to this , but ships of the French and British navies had sailed to the Indian Ocean and could not remain neutral . |
| 18 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 19 | This inclination today is 5.15° , and no convincing explanation has yet been found of how the inclination could have increased to this value from about 0° 4600 Ma ago . |
| 20 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 21 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 22 | " What preceding state could have led to this position ; what pre-preceding states could have led to that state , etc. ? " |
| 23 | " What guilty neglect and vicious treatment " , wrote one clergyman , " could have led to all the depravity of the maritime population ? |
| 24 | They have welcomed the scrapping of Manchester proposals which could have led to more aircraft noise over the Lymm and Grappenhall areas . |
| 25 | " What preceding state could have led to this position ; what pre-preceding states could have led to that state , etc. ? " |
| 26 | As a gleaner , Ruth could have gone to any part of the field , but she happened to come a fo , part of the field that belonged to Boaz . |
| 27 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 28 | At first instance , the judge held that the accommodation had to be appropriate and that no reasonable authority could have come to that conclusion in this case . |
| 29 | We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location . |
| 30 | I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " … |