Example sentences of "have be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 2 | To have devised the material ‘ in house ’ using DES and HMI would have been and would have been seen to be unhealthily parochial ; to have used the National Curriculum Council would have involved too great a delay . |
| 3 | From a reading of their own literature , librarians and information scientists might have expected that one area where use of IT would definitely have been recognised to be giving such an advantage to its users is that of the retrieval of publicly available information online . |
| 4 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |
| 5 | What this early artist has illustrated is mobbing behaviour being exploited to trap small birds , which would have been destined to be served up at table . |
| 6 | In any weather conditions , the visitor must wonder how any simple man scraping a living in such a lonely and inhospitable place in the 17th century could have been judged to be a threat to the nation . |
| 7 | Today people conceive as ‘ real ’ that which , within a dominantly Platonist framework of thought , would have been held to be a particular instance of what could be said most truly to exist . |
| 8 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 9 | Jones & Smith may be inconsistent with Collins , where the accused could have been held to be a trespasser because he exceeded his permission to enter . |
| 10 | Even if consideration had been confined to health education as opposed to the broader concept of health promotion , the interventions could readily have been predicted to be of limited value . |
| 11 | This will certainly have caused concern in the Middle Ages and some unfortunates may have been considered to be " possessed " of evil spirits and treated accordingly . |
| 12 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 13 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 14 | If we had won all the Tests but lost all the one-dayers , then it would have been considered to be a successful trip . ’ |
| 15 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 16 | Other unions which had either supported the earlier feasibility study , or might otherwise have been expected to be sympathetic , came up with only feeble amounts . |
| 17 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 18 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 19 | The 7% margin against the Council 's plans for monitoring visits to sole practitioners might have been expected to be larger in view of the fact that the response as a whole was weighted so heavily in favour of sole practitioners . |
| 20 | The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) . |
| 21 | He says that the building fits in with its surroundings , and would never have been allowed to be built if it was n't safe . |
| 22 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 23 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 24 | That might have been thought to be intune with the Cold War music of the era . |