Example sentences of "have [been] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His normal reaction would have been to swing the car in a U-turn to return and tackle the driver of the tractor . |
| 2 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 3 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 4 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 5 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 6 | The only possible resolution of the difficulty would have been to obtain the consent of both Mr. Brant and the plaintiff to reveal Mr. Perot 's interest to the other . |
| 7 | The sensible response would have been to increase the number of officers , not to cut them . |
| 8 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 9 | Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used . |
| 10 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |
| 11 | It is likely that the motive for the new designs may have been to enhance the dignity of the King and to stress his magnificence ; it is impossible to say if there was any deliberate intention of claiming additional status for him , or if this was a subsequent interpretation of the imagery . |
| 12 | To have given full details at that earlier point would have been to remove the sting from the report to Eli , and spoil its shock . |
| 13 | If he 'd come without a lighter or matches , surely the obvious thing would have been to remove the box from the chained brass holder attached to the heater . |
| 14 | To have remained in the contest under these circumstances would have been to play the role of a " spoiler " said Tsongas , and , thereby , to " become the agent of the re-election of George Bush " . |
| 15 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 16 | To have assumed otherwise would have been to raise a number of awkward questions . |
| 17 | This may be a genuine statement — in fact the seller 's own objective may have been to gain a foothold in the buyer 's business . |