Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Recent evidence suggests however , that the introduction of modern technology does not necessarily have to lead to a continuing decline in the agricultural labour force .
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 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 .
6 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 .
7 And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke .
8 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 .
9 We do n't have to get to a certain stage of holiness .
10 We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit .
11 ‘ Could n't have happened to a nicer chap . ’
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 .
15 The offeror and its financial advisers will therefore have to work to a large extent in isolation in determining the right level of consideration .
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