Example sentences of "[vb infin] to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as McKendrick has pointed out , increased spending on a greater volume and range of consumer goods does not need to have been general or even typical . |
| 2 | And you must understand : to appreciate the pessimism I feel today you would need to have been present when I formed the optimism. , |
| 3 | Although , on the face of it , this might not appear to have been conducive to the development of industry-wide bargaining paradoxically such ‘ division by occupation promoted bargaining by industry ’ ( Phelps Brown , 1959 , p. 362 ) . |
| 4 | His judgement of the situation would appear to have been correct , for this was undoubtedly Oblt . |
| 5 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 6 | After Edward 's departure for England in 1274 Tany 's powers and authority as seneschal were carefully defined , but his rule does not appear to have been successful . |
| 7 | For neither of them did the medication appear to have been helpful and , in collaboration with their general practitioner , it was therefore stopped . |
| 8 | Indeed , confirmation of a satisfactory legal outcome would appear to have been apparent during December last year when the legal Director of the EC Commission , Mr Dubois , wrote to the Association 's Solicitors , stating , ‘ … |
| 9 | Clovis 's own action , however , does not appear to have been traditional . |
| 10 | However unsatisfactory the ancient idea of belligerent reprisals may be , the threat of reprisals does appear to have been effective in this matter ( Kalshoven , 1971 , p. 348 ) . |
| 11 | Hannon 's prognosis of the Act , that ‘ LEAs will be able to draw the line between the ‘ statemented ’ and the ‘ unstatemented ’ where they please ’ , would appear to have been accurate . |
| 12 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |
| 13 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 14 | Such a condition was obviously inserted to encourage Cornishmen to make their contributions to the royal coffers , but its enforcement against individual landowners would appear to have been impracticable once disafforestment had taken place . |
| 15 | As for Constantine 's ‘ conversion ’ — if that is the appropriate word — it does not appear to have been Christian at all , but conventionally pagan . |
| 16 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 17 | 4.9 Provided the medical expense was reasonably incurred , it is immaterial that the particular treatment should transpire to have been unnecessary , or even mistaken : per Lord Collins in Clippens Oil Co Ltd v Edinburgh & District Water Trustees 1907 SC(HL) 9 at p14 : |
| 18 | After the war , most of Montparnasse would claim to have been intimate friends of Modigliani . |
| 19 | It is with regret and concern that I find myself moving to this resolution since the members as members of the European Community want would like to have been possible to travel freely between members states . |
| 20 | ‘ Anything you 'd like to have been able to keep about the past ? ’ |
| 21 | On selling players , I 'm sure he would like to have been able to keep Sheridan , Hendrie , Batty , and Cuntona , as well as keep all the current players and spend smoe millions on defenders . |
| 22 | No , though I would like to have been able to have played , I can remember saying to my mother once , I would like to have been able to have learnt the piano . |
| 23 | No , though I would like to have been able to have played , I can remember saying to my mother once , I would like to have been able to have learnt the piano . |
| 24 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 25 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 26 | Everybody , including shop-keepers , bar owners and all the members of your class at the University — they do n't have to have been special friends , just acquaintances — teachers , too . |
| 27 | ‘ He does n't seem to have been well-liked . ’ |
| 28 | In spite of this , Gloucester 's links with the Cliffords themselves do not seem to have been close . |
| 29 | In spite of this , Gloucester 's links with the Cliffords themselves do not seem to have been close . |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , an arthritic patient reported that the joint problems had cleared up but that she was becoming increasingly anxious and irritable , then the physician would be worried and would be certain that the wrong treatment had been given , even though , superficially , it would seem to have been effective . |