Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [adj] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | me patient should have the right sort of symptoms and should have been subject to some stressful emotional experience before the onset of the illness . |
| 2 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 3 | The potential benefits in facilities alone should have been obvious to all , he thinks . |
| 4 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 5 | This was a messianic fervour that must have been similar to that possessed by the ancient zealots who died defending Masada against the Romans 2,000 years ago . |
| 6 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
| 7 | Perhaps destitution might have been preferable to this . |
| 8 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 9 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 10 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
| 11 | It may have been idyllic to some but evidently not to the people who lived as close to the land as James Seely did . |
| 12 | Although family health services authorities may have been oblivious to these activities , this does not indicate their absence . |
| 13 | This tough process , it was realised , did not accord with their own equal-opportunities policy , in that candidates for paid advice workers ' posts were given only an oral interview , even though their job description may have been identical to that of a voluntary advice worker . |
| 14 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |
| 15 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 16 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 17 | The Professor 's own American sign language would have been unintelligible to those present . |
| 18 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that this rate would have been acceptable to all members . |
| 20 | Much of Hollywood 's mass audience would have been oblivious to this but intelligent and respectable film-goers must have been very aware that society was shaping their film-going . |