Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 2 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 3 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 4 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 5 | But there must have been more to it than that . |
| 6 | Then a fortnight ago I had a cataract removed , but there must have been more to it than that , because not only am I startled by the brightness of things , but the vision in that eye is practically perfect , so I am not wearing glasses most of the time , though for faint or small print ( not piano music : hooray ) I shall have to get some more specs . |
| 7 | What they might 've been up to . |
| 8 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 9 | Stupid Aries might have been more to the point , because the only person who seemed to have been burnt by her fire was herself . |
| 10 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 11 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 12 | If Gesell had killed DeVore , they 'd have been back to square one . |
| 13 | I was there If I 'd have been there to July , that year that I moved there , I would have been there twenty five years , on that road . |
| 14 | But there may have been more to the Chancellor 's remarks than meet the eye . |
| 15 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 16 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 18 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 19 | In the old days this would have been all to the good . |
| 20 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It would have been more to the point if you 'd attacked Ryan , ’ he said brutally , ‘ because , despite your lousy opinion of me , I 've done nothing to deliberately hurt you . |
| 23 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 24 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |