Example sentences of "have been [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 2 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 3 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 4 | Errors , such as indexers assigning unsuitable terms to concepts or omitting relationships , will affect precision by producing unsuitable documents in response to a search ; on the other hand , the same documents will fail to be identified when a search is conducted under the terms which should have been assigned to the document , thus reducing recall . |
| 5 | Another 20 who can not face seeing the area have been invited to the British ambassador 's villa at Kakami . |
| 6 | who would have been invited to the muckle suppers then everybody would n't have been asked . |
| 7 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 8 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 9 | The same motto could have been applied to the meeting itself . |
| 10 | We can well understand and sympathise with the judge 's concern that where serious injuries had been inflicted on Mr. Gilbert , who gave credible evidence implicating the appellant , the prosecution case should have been prejudiced by inappropriately calling a witness who should have been tendered to the defence . |
| 11 | Normally , any limiting adjustment which may have been made to the amount of positive pitch available will be overridden by this control . |
| 12 | Finally , the question arises whether this application should have been made to the Court of Appeal . |
| 13 | Rights such as these should not have been denied to the public . |
| 14 | From these statements it is possible to deduce that Hizir Bey must have been appointed to the Sultan medrese during the first sultanate of Mehmed II ( 848–50/1444–6 ) and that Molla Arab can not therefore have begun his study with him , much less become anyone 's before the summer of 848/1444 . |
| 15 | It is thought that the work may have been presented to the Queen by her Privy Councillor and Ambassador , Sir James Melville ( whose signature appears on the title-page ) , perhaps following a visit he made to Italy . |
| 16 | It may have been presented to the Queen in order to show her something of the impact that Protestantism had made in Italy . |
| 17 | Elise 's name would no doubt have been upgraded to the slim personal pocket-diary which Luke carried . |
| 18 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |
| 19 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 20 | As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled . |
| 21 | Ignored by the guard , who was running towards the house after being startled into wakefulness , the Doctor eyed the cloud of grey smoke critically , wondering how much damage would have been done to the villa itself . |
| 22 | At this stage the actual response categories may not have been considered in detail , but if the questions themselves justify inclusion some thought should have been given to the response categories envisaged for analysis since it is the answers which will be analysed . |
| 23 | I suggest that the Hon. Gentleman goes to Holyhead and explains that in his view the priority should have been given to the television studios and not to Holyhead . |
| 24 | ‘ More thought should have been given to the announcement , ’ added Tom . |
| 25 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 26 | Where an answer is required to be filed of which notice must have been given to the respondent ( Ord 9 , r 18(5) ) , the answer shall be filed within 14 days inclusive of the day of service , unless another period is prescribed , and shall be accompanied by sufficient copies for all other parties , including other respondents separately represented . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding anything herein contained or the completion of the Lease nothing in this agreement shall release the Landlord from any liability in respect of defects appearing in the Works due to bad or faulty workmanship or design or materials provided notice of the same shall have been given to the Landlord by the Tenant or its successors in title before the expiration of the period of [ 6 ] years from the date hereof and upon receipt of such notice the Landlord shall forthwith take such action as may be necessary to remedy the defects at its own expense with all possible expedition |
| 28 | Sadly for Mr Harford , the £11m would never have been given to the Labour county council by this Government . |
| 29 | The table is believed to date from the 1930s and could have been given to the club by a local building firm , whose managing director was on the Quakers board . |
| 30 | No doubt half the population of Paris could have been wiped out by a typhoid epidemic in 1788 , and perhaps the king would not then have been sent to the guillotine . |