Example sentences of "have be [det] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State agree that until now , there has been little to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to change their minds about the EC being a rich man 's club ? |
| 2 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 3 | But in many cases the threat of legal action has been enough to stop those few shopkeepers who attempt to profit from glue and solvent sales to solvent misusers . |
| 4 | Many people have felt this summer that a night in the packed to bursting Gouter refuge has been enough to turn anyone to narcotics . |
| 5 | However , in both these instances the commercial pressure of the campaigning groups has been enough to effect change . |
| 6 | Yet such as it is , what I have witnessed has been enough to throw a strong light on the materials I have used , and , for me , has made the dry bones live . |
| 7 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |
| 8 | As some people have pointed out , in the mid-eighties that time would n't have been much to write home about . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There would not have been many to mourn him . ’ |
| 10 | The food these suburban Texans threw away would have been enough to feed the whole of Latin America . |
| 11 | This would have been enough to allow the guardians to purchase 300 hot cross buns for the inmates at current prices ; that , too , was duly authorised for Easter 1930 . |
| 12 | If de Gaulle had adopted an exclusively parliamentary approach , the RPF 's victory in 1951 might have been enough to carry him back to power , but only on the system 's terms . |
| 13 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 14 | But Panamanain exiles in the US complained that a small show of force by the US might have been enough to tip the balance in the rebels ' favour . |
| 15 | In uniform she looked very dignified and very nice , and she ran Casualty so efficiently that without her various little ways her professional skill would have been enough to account for her already being a hospital legend in her own lifetime . |
| 16 | But , in that case , would it not have been enough to defend Saudi Arabia and maintain the pressure on Saddam Hussein through sanctions ? |
| 17 | The other cause for concern is the opt-out on the Social Chapter and some have said that should have been enough to cause us to reject Maastricht . |
| 18 | Their financial situation would not have been enough to drive them away . |
| 19 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 20 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 21 | The Caucasus alone would have been enough to incline him to seek peace in external relations . |
| 22 | Meteorologists have confirmed that , for the first time in years , the prevailing winter winds were easterly , and a navy hydrographer said the surface area of the submerged craft would have been enough to act as a sail and counter the current . |
| 23 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 24 | The fact that a 23 year old black man was making films at all would have been enough to raise eyebrows a few years ago . |
| 25 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 26 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 27 | I suspect that my mother 's obviously determined nature would have been enough to master him . |
| 28 | The prospect of an armed mob , including that monstrous regiment of ‘ wyfes ’ , must have been enough to bring on an immediate headache . |
| 29 | Another persuasive defence of economic reforms yesterday by Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , may have been enough to have seen off remaining threats . |
| 30 | His reaction might have been enough to make her call a halt to the whole thing . |