Example sentences of "have been to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional formula for British economic life has been to have the production industries producing not only the articles for sale but also the wealth of the nation . |
| 2 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 4 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 5 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 6 | To have acknowledged social depression and despair would have been to have identified anger . |
| 7 | The next step would have been to have got my husband to go along — but alas it was too late , which is why I had contact with the next organization , the National Council of One Parent Families . |
| 8 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 9 | Had the situation been different and plastic bullets had been fired , the longer-term consequence would have been to have moved the police significantly towards the position where the use of baton rounds was perceived by them as an appropriate method of crowd dispersal during large-scale civil disturbance . |
| 10 | How marvellous it was to be free ; how appalling it would have been to have had to wash some man 's socks and cope with his whingeing children . |
| 11 | It had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton 's hard-won road to the top just proved to her how ruthless he must have been to have attained his ultimate goal . |
| 12 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 13 | Wilson quickly realised how lucky she had been to have the Misses Wynne directed to her by kind Miss Blagden . |
| 14 | How lucky they had been to have grandparents living at Thrush Green , thought Joan , looking back to those happy days with affection . |
| 15 | The Duchess 's answer to the eagerness of so many to attend her ball had been to have tickets of admission printed , yet , even so , Bristow expected there to be at least as many interlopers as ticket holders . |
| 16 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 17 | Oh you 've been to have you ? |
| 18 | We 've been to have n't we ? |
| 19 | No she said she 's been to have a look at , it 's Glenys I do n't , no not Glenys |