Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Savings resulting from the Energy Efficiency Office 's programmes alone have led to a current annual energy saving worth more than £500 million a year . |
| 2 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 3 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 4 | In that case the beneficiaries would have been Muslims but they could just as easily have belonged to a different group . |
| 5 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 6 | The lower transfusion requirements in the regulated group reflected milder illness with less investigational blood loss but may also have related to a greater initial endowment of red cells and their precursors . |
| 7 | Once established , however , the theoretical stage seems to have grown in status and size , and may even have led to a relative decline in the importance and quality of the practical stage . |
| 8 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 9 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 10 | ‘ Could n't have happened to a nicer chap . ’ |
| 11 | The proportion of the final value of silk goods returned to producers is substantial , sufficient indeed to have led to a major expansion of the industry in recent years , with visibly greater prosperity in sericultureal areas . |
| 12 | Like , in England we 'd never have gone to a domestic dispute unless a crime had been committed . |
| 13 | On another occasion , Phil Morris knew that , had Laura been consulted , she would never have agreed to a particular print being produced with a border . |
| 14 | The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past . |