Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] to [det] " in BNC.

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1 Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it .
2 She could have been assigned to any one of them .
3 Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe .
4 Some thought will already have been given to this in deciding how many priorities will be tackled in the coming year .
5 Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ?
6 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 ?
7 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 .
8 Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth .
9 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 .
10 It is a pity that this civilized sort of arrangement could n't have been extended to more cities .
11 Thanks to the sophistication of modern mining techniques , little damage would have been caused to most other properties .
12 We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group .
13 Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders .
14 How much time should have been allocated to that job/ activity ?
15 Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son .
16 He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength .
17 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 .
18 It would then be a reasonable deduction that some of the ancient equatorial groups that have since disappeared , such as the rudists , may have been adapted to these higher temperatures , and become extinct when they were no longer available .
19 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 .
20 ‘ We are both aware , I dare say , that were my royal lord with me now , I would not have been brought to such a pass .
21 Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well .
22 Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks .
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