Example sentences of "to have [been] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every contact I 've ever had with Florian has to have been to do with sex — ’ |
| 2 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 3 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 4 | This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains . |
| 5 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 6 | The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design . |
| 7 | Long lines of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip were attacked , and much damage was believed to have been done ; in fact many Bf110s and Ju52s were damaged , some seriously , but these attacks did little to stem the assault on the island . |
| 8 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 9 | And , most importantly , something has been seen to have been done . |
| 10 | The first published tensile tests seem to have been done by the French philosopher and musician Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) who was interested in the strength of the wires used in musical instruments . |
| 11 | ‘ We are aware that a number of incidents have been reported but sweet FA seems to have been done about it . ’ |
| 12 | This seems to have been done in the interests of retaining the theoreticians ' assumption of panmixia ( Charlesworth , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | This appears to have been done , as Crawford 's occupation in the street-directory guide changes from ‘ cricket coach ’ to ‘ agent ’ . |
| 14 | Most managers are happier with numbers and measurements than qualitative judgements , and there is , certainly , some risk that a small-scale piece of research will turn out to have been done on a sample of people who are rather atypical of the desired target audience as a whole . |
| 15 | As I would put it , not only is justice not seen to have been done but there is no way , in the absence of reasons from the board , in which it can be judged whether in fact it has been done . |
| 16 | Section 4(1) provides in relation to rate support grant : ‘ Anything done by the Secretary of State before the passing of this Act for the purposes of the relevant provisions in relation to any of the initial years or intermediate years shall be deemed to have been done in compliance with those provisions . ’ |
| 17 | According to section 15 of the 1982 Act , if the union is sued for inducing breach of or interfering with contract , or for intimidation by threats to interfere with contract , or for conspiracy to commit these torts , then the act in question shall be taken to have been done by the union only if it was authorised or endorsed by a ‘ responsible person , ’ which means the principal executive committee , any person authorised by the rules to endorse acts of the kind in question , the president or general secretary , any other employed official , or any committee to which an employed official reports , but an act by an official or a committee to which he reports shall not be taken as authorised or endorsed if the official or committee was prevented from authorising or endorsing the act by union rules or if the act has been repudiated by the president or general secretary . |
| 18 | Little seems to have been done to repair the various bridges and now , — " Ballinaby having presented to this Meeting an Estimate of a Bridge to be built upon the water of Saligo … |
| 19 | Collecting all the raw material to create the final page or document is only the beginning of the desktop publishing process and is something that would have to have been done whatever system was being used . |
| 20 | In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . |
| 21 | Work was interrupted by a fire in the palace in 1298 and little seems to have been done until 1320 , but Michael was occupied on other works for the Crown , being sent to Winchester Castle in 1306 . |
| 22 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |
| 23 | Yet not very much seems to have been done to make that wall unclimbable . |
| 24 | It also means that the manager receives no plaudits for doing what ought already to have been done since . |
| 25 | It is , no doubt , already familiar to all those attending this meeting , yet still little appears to have been done to overcome it . |
| 26 | Signing the Scottish agreement five months after the Enron contract appeared to have been done ‘ purely to support your evidence for the Lackenby to Shipton line , ’ he said , adding the NGC had no statutory duty to connect Scottish power . |
| 27 | ‘ This is apparently against prison regulations , but little seems to have been done to enforce the rule . ’ |
| 28 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 29 | And if I might just come in on this thing that 's always thrown up against Mrs. Thatcher about her rejoice , she said rejoice when South Georgia had been retaken and the rejoice was because it appeared to have been done without any casualties — that was what she was rejoicing for , not the victory erm |
| 30 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |