Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [adv prt] 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 | What they might 've been up to . |
| 6 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If Gesell had killed DeVore , they 'd have been back to square one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 13 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 14 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 15 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |