Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
| 2 | The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy . |
| 3 | With the tower made of glass and steel , the explosion would have been bound to cause severe injuries . ’ |
| 4 | We could have been bound to pay enormous sums of money if we had lost . ’ |
| 5 | Pupils should already have been encouraged to ask historical questions in the primary school but this should be reemphasised throughout Key Stage 3 . |
| 6 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric might have been used to sharpen tactical differences and to make opponents look absurdly paranoid . |
| 7 | Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols . |
| 8 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 9 | Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved . |
| 10 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 11 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |
| 12 | Additionally , the level of detail achieved by the extended breakdown of the conceptual model could have been utilised to explore other aspects of the formal systems model ( eg resource levels , control or communication issues and so on ) , or to examine matters such as the ideal groupings of systemically desirable tasks , an approach discussed further in Chapter 12 . |
| 13 | The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix . |
| 14 | This in itself was unusual , as the high-ranking patrons would have been expected to display classical scenes in their houses , leading to the supposition that these intimate portraits of courtesans were most probably on view only in the private apartments . |
| 15 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 16 | Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable . |