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 | Arlott could have written that of himself , but would have been profoundly embarrassed to have done so . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | It would n't have been proper to have seen him alone . |
| 8 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |
| 9 | It would have been interesting to have seen the two films together . |
| 10 | Interesting to have seen that young sneak thief about in the hotel , Lord Boddington switched thoughts , disturbed by memories of unhappier days . |
| 11 | 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of a contradiction in terms there , and in fact Mr Lock is n't here today because his clients have subsequently withdrawn from the er E I P but er it would have been interesting to have asked him the question . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although it would have been interesting to have known which were Dr. Blair 's books and where the others came from , the important point is to realise what a very wide range of reading was available to the small number of people in this village . |
| 14 | Looks ; I know it is idiotically wrong to have preconceived notions about looks . |
| 15 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 16 | As already stated , the defendant 's real defence was one of accident , but that did not dispense with the need for the judge to leave the issue of provocation to the jury if there was any evidence to justify that course ; and the defendant contended that the judge was wrong to have directed the jury that provocation did not arise for their consideration . |
| 17 | Furthermore it was in our judgment wrong to have discharged the jury . |
| 18 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 19 | It always sounded as if one should have known , had been told before and was rather foolish to have forgotten . |
| 20 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 21 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 22 | Equally it would be foolish to have starved yourself so that you were hungry enough to feel discomfort . |
| 23 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 24 | At that stage it would have been easy to have got carried away and think that the Cup was won but I made a point of saying that " A wise man does n't count his chickens " and we did n't do that . |
| 25 | She was so clever to have thought of it . |
| 26 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 27 | ‘ Your mother , ’ she said to Anna , ‘ thinks you are so clever to have found us . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 29 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 30 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |