Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency . |
| 2 | Originally this state must have led to a great deal of contradictory and ambivalent behaviour , with the bird being tugged in opposite directions by its opposing moods . |
| 3 | ‘ The greatest thing is telling him there is no point going to his mainstream school any longer if he is not going to get around and that he 'll have to go to a special school — at which point he explodes in terror and starts to make special efforts . |
| 4 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 5 | Agreement on Germany and the provision of Marshall Aid without strings might have led to a different outcome . |
| 6 | The NVQ system allowed learning at students ' own speeds compared with the three-year registration period of the Institute , which might have to change to an annual registration period and fee as a consequence . |
| 7 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 8 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 9 | They might have belonged to a different species . |
| 10 | ‘ We are still in business and still functioning as normal for this year 's but we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993 , ’ added Mr Steel . |
| 11 | But we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993. ’ — Ex-serviceman John Bennet has been appointed show chairman . |
| 12 | It could have led to a certain amount of resentment , particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah . |
| 13 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 14 | Marsh 's absence may have contributed to a disappointing first-day crowd of 7708 , but those present witnessed an interesting day , Australia reaching 222 for 4 , with the prolific Boon again to the fore . |
| 15 | We also have had serious problems , despite razor wire and big padlocks , and if it continues we may have to move to a new town , which will do no good for this community . ’ |
| 16 | My phone number is not the one listed on this article as I may have moved to a new address by the time you read this . |
| 17 | Police believe the gang may have transferred to a waiting car . |
| 18 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |
| 19 | An electric drill fitted with a masonry drill bit can be used to make a start , but sooner or later , you may have to resort to a cold chisel and large ‘ club ’ hammer . |
| 20 | Many crops are grown from seed every year and so all the necessary genetic mutations would have to happen to a single plant within one growing season . |
| 21 | This , if implemented , would have led to a still more impersonal service . |
| 22 | That is , the initial inductive inference , which was legitimate insofar as it satisfied the criteria specified by the principle of induction , would have led to a false conclusion , in spite of the fact that all premises of the inference were true . |
| 23 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 24 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 25 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 26 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 27 | This is because smaller competing firms lose the benefits of size — economies of scale — which would have accrued to a single , large firm . |
| 28 | She had reminded him he would have to speak to a certain young man in the Blue Boar this evening . |
| 29 | The distribution of work between the divisions of that court is only a matter of convenience ; the Queen 's Bench Division can never say ‘ here a matter of Equity is involved ; we can not decide it ’ , or the Chancery Division ‘ this is a question of Common Law ; you ought to have gone to a Common Law Court ’ . |
| 30 | If they can not agree it will have to go to a public inquiry . |