Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although staff may have been appointed to a post With fixed hours and work schedules , a change in circumstances may give rise to a request for change . |
| 2 | And yet there is now a way in which a small business can introduce ‘ new technology ’ methods for producing its internal documentation , manuals , price lists , brochures , indeed anything that previously would have been sent to a designer or printshop . |
| 3 | His parents have not been identified , though he may have been related to a family of Purneys in Buckinghamshire . |
| 4 | It was argued that he should have been sentenced to a term of detention in a young offender institution , and that he did not qualify for a custodial sentence for that purpose under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) . |
| 5 | Even so , it is a great deal more than would have been credited to a bird even a few years ago . |
| 6 | It could have been written to a boy of seven ; I was only half that age . |
| 7 | You 'd have been crushed to a point . |
| 8 | But it was quite uncanny — three days earlier it would have been completely covered in snow and they 'd never have seen it : three days later it would have been stripped to a skeleton . ’ |
| 9 | Ten millennia of history will have been sacrificed to a crop of little taste and to gardeners who must keep up with the Joneses . |
| 10 | And if God 's law had been obeyed , special care would have been shown to a widow by her family and friends . |
| 11 | I 'd have been taken to a guardroom and asked to explain myself . " |