Example sentences of "[adj] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when spelling was so much more fluid , it would have seemed sensible to have changed letters for the sake of legibility . ) |
| 2 | It would have been sensible to have got in touch , but she had been desperate to get back and every mile of the road from Paris had been singingly bittersweet . |
| 3 | That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days . |
| 4 | It would have been a lot easier to have done nothing . |
| 5 | In the end it would have been easier to have gone out and bought a ’ Persuader ’ ( remember them ? ) as used by the man himself , streets ahead of any other shop-bought ledger rod of the day . |
| 6 | Arlott could have written that of himself , but would have been profoundly embarrassed to have done so . |
| 7 | Okay , erm the quality of exam I mean there 'll be some people here who will feel embarrassed to have submitted the work that they 've written , right ? |
| 8 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 9 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 10 | D. J. Wrench is one of the few to have considered in any detail what happened after the National Government was formed . |
| 11 | Despite the plant 's troubles , Fiat was reported on Aug. 22 to have confirmed its commitment to buy a 90 per cent stake in FSM , which manufactured the Fiat 500 model under licence . |
| 12 | Despite the plant 's troubles , Fiat was reported on Aug. 22 to have confirmed its commitment to buy a 90 per cent stake in FSM , which manufactured the Fiat 500 model under licence . |
| 13 | The US state of Hawaii suffered severe damage on Sept. 11 when it was struck by Hurricane Iniki , the strongest to have hit the Hawaiian islands during the 20th century . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 15 | The JMCs had no power of their own , except persuasion , but reported directly to the State Security Council ( SSC ) , formerly presided over by P. W. Botha , which was considered by some to have become the de facto government where the real decisions affecting the country were taken . |
| 16 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
| 17 | Indeed , although the SLA is composed overwhelmingly of qualified teachers , it seems to some to have shown itself less aware of the pressures of educational change than the Library Association , with its royal charter to oversee the interests of libraries of all kinds . |
| 18 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
| 19 | A symbol of the less controllable results of technology , the Holme Post , a cast-iron column believed by some to have come from the Crystal Palace , was sunk into the ground near Whittlesey , to measure peat shrinkage . |
| 20 | Busti , who completed the reliefs in the early sixteenth-century , was known as Il Bambaia , another to have acquired a curiously Milanese nickname . |
| 21 | It would n't have been proper to have seen him alone . |
| 22 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |
| 23 | Although possible , we think it unlikely for this to have occurred for risk factors such as smoking and parity . |
| 24 | The government was reported on June 2 to have paid US$27,000,000 to China towards the purchase of a 300-megawatt nuclear power plant agreed between the two countries in December 1991 [ see pp. 38684 ; 38726 ] . |
| 25 | Capt. Valentine Strasser , Chairman of the Supreme Council of State ( SCS ) , was reported on Dec. 2 to have reshuffled his government , slimming down the SCS from 20 to five members , and making other extensive changes . |
| 26 | The main opposition grouping , the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) , was reported on June 2 to have protested that administrative and legal obstacles were being used to prevent sections of the population registering . |
| 27 | It would have been interesting to have seen the two films together . |
| 28 | Interesting to have seen that young sneak thief about in the hotel , Lord Boddington switched thoughts , disturbed by memories of unhappier days . |
| 29 | Erm , it does seem to be something of a contradiction in terms there , and in fact Mr Lock is n't here today because his clients have subsequently withdrawn from the er E I P but er it would have been interesting to have asked him the question . |
| 30 | It would have been interesting to have had such contemporary problems , deriving from the college 's success , treated in the same detail as the early problems , when it was still seeking the way ahead . |