Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 2 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 3 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 4 | The prosecution should have applied to a judge of the Central Criminal Court to revoke bail and then if bail was granted again , to impose the condition of medical examination required by the statute . |
| 5 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 6 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 7 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 8 | This situation might have led to a drive for better theory for public sector accounting , to sustain these ad hoc policies — but it has not . |
| 9 | A greater use of comparison , in addition to immanent critique , might have led to a lessening of prejudice , elitism and class — and Euro-centrism . |
| 10 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 11 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 12 | Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home . |
| 13 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 14 | the jacket was the uniform of Britain 's 95th Rifles , though it was now so threadbare and patched that it might have belonged to a tramp . |
| 15 | The magistrate said the words were neither abusive or insulting but could have led to a breach of the peace . |
| 16 | A pity , say analysts , that it did not come off : America 's biggest-ever bank merger could have led to a barrelful of such deals — and not before time . |
| 17 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 18 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
| 19 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 20 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 21 | These factors may have led to a decrease in the exposure of the colonic mucosa to carcinogens and may have protected the colon and negated any effect of the modest increases in the proliferative zone in the distal colon . |
| 22 | Two periods , 1750 – 70 and the 1780s , saw especially sharp declines , although the generally high level of economic activity in the latter may have compensated to a degree with fuller employment . |
| 23 | Much may have happened to a flue , both during its closure , and when it was previously in use . |
| 24 | THE Soviet Union 's quarrelling politicians may have come to a truce , perhaps something more . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 26 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 27 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 28 | It can not be the case , however , that every initial configuration would have led to a universe like the one we observe . |
| 29 | it would have led to a Sterling crisis and we 've had enough of that |
| 30 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |