Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 2 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 3 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 4 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 8 | ‘ Had I paid heed to the advice of many people in England … and adopted masculine garments , I should have been spiked to the bone , and done for . ‘ |
| 9 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 10 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 11 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 12 | I 'd have been taken to a guardroom and asked to explain myself . " |
| 13 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 14 | All I need do was agree to a list of people who had already been named , so I would n't be hurting anyone . |
| 15 | ‘ It was n't important , otherwise I would have been married to the ladies in question . |
| 16 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 17 | Both the way he selected people and the status and accountability he gave them might have been suggested to him by John Howard . |
| 18 | Normally , any limiting adjustment which may have been made to the amount of positive pitch available will be overridden by this control . |
| 19 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 20 | One patient suffered with transitory lethargy during treatment , which may have been related to radiotherapy . |
| 21 | The shout made Peter unbalanced , he grabbed at the eagle which should have been fixed to the stone . |
| 22 | Cos there 's millions and millions of pounds that the revenue have got rushing about which should have been repaid to er investors . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Doubtless it included rent from Garsington as well as from the Whitchurch glebe , which must have been let to farm seeing that his own agricultural interests were limited to a couple of dozen sheep and some poultry . |
| 25 | It was said by the court that the plaintiff 's case must fail because any duty of confidence which might exist was owed to the Greek Government and not to the plaintiff . |
| 26 | Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training . |
| 27 | The consequence of those legal manoeuvres is to deny other London boroughs a massive capital receipt which could have been put to good use on behalf of charge payers . |
| 28 | We do not believe that it is the full answer which could have been brought to the House . |
| 29 | Upon alternative access for heavy vehicles to a public highway being made available to the satisfaction of the local planning authority the use of Gillingham Gate for heavy vehicles shall be discontinued or reduced in accordance with details which shall have been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority . |
| 30 | REJECTED the offer of running rights over the Rhyd-ddu-Porthmadog section of the W.H.R which would have been leased to the '64 Company . |