Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] to [det] " in BNC.
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1 | She could have been assigned to any one of them . |
2 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
3 | Some thought will already have been given to this in deciding how many priorities will be tackled in the coming year . |
4 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
5 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
6 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
7 | Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth . |
8 | A number of Group companies completed reviews of their environmental performance and by the end of 1993 , this will have been extended to all companies . |
9 | It is a pity that this civilized sort of arrangement could n't have been extended to more cities . |
10 | Thanks to the sophistication of modern mining techniques , little damage would have been caused to most other properties . |
11 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
12 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
13 | How much time should have been allocated to that job/ activity ? |
14 | Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son . |
15 | He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength . |
16 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
17 | It would then be a reasonable deduction that some of the ancient equatorial groups that have since disappeared , such as the rudists , may have been adapted to these higher temperatures , and become extinct when they were no longer available . |
18 | She knew , before the talkative nurse had told her so , that it would have been squeezed to that shape by her own body giving birth . |
19 | ‘ We are both aware , I dare say , that were my royal lord with me now , I would not have been brought to such a pass . |
20 | Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well . |
21 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |