Example sentences of "[adj] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been interesting to have had such contemporary problems , deriving from the college 's success , treated in the same detail as the early problems , when it was still seeking the way ahead . |
| 2 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |
| 3 | ‘ We are very fortunate to have made this bridge ’ . |
| 4 | I was fortunate to have had these advantages ; it is quite impossible to operate at any level in industry without being aware of the world forces which are pressing upon us . |
| 5 | He was just a very extraordinary man and I was very fortunate to have had those twelve years . |
| 6 | I am fortunate to have had enough support to recover from the hell of being abused . |
| 7 | She is as much a part of the family as Mrs Lewis 's own baby sons … we think she is very fortunate to have found such a wonderfully happy home . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm delighted to have secured this deal at long last . |
| 9 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 10 | ‘ We are delighted to have achieved this within a year . |
| 11 | ‘ We are delighted to have created this prestigious exhibition which has been well received and enjoyed by so many visitors . ’ |
| 12 | Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director comments : ‘ We are delighted to have received this prestigious retail award . |
| 13 | Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director , comments ‘ We are delighted to have received these three awards . ’ |
| 14 | We are delighted to have found this beautiful establishment which is not really a hotel , in the conventional sense , rather a whole village turned into a hotel — with the exception of one or two buildings which house the wine production . |
| 15 | He was lucky to have led such an ordered life . |
| 16 | Slated urban roofs are likely to have reached this state after about eighty years . |
| 17 | One Cabinet minister , however , is likely to have saved some money on his hotel bill to go towards his bid for next year . |
| 18 | In the country , blackbirds and mistle thrushes are likely to have stripped most of the glistening haws by the end of November . |
| 19 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |
| 20 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |
| 21 | Each patient 's fasting plasma glucose and insulin measurements can be interpreted by the model to predict the β cell function and insulin sensitivity that are likely to have given those measurements . |
| 22 | On family farms in the future wives were likely to have to do more manual work . |
| 23 | A junior hacksaw : You 're likely to have to tackle some small metal-cutting jobs from time to time . |
| 24 | Of this 20% , the non-enrollers were more likely to have had such problems . |
| 25 | Given that natural selection has not eradicated the disorder , despite its association with suicide , with the possibility of reduced fertility , and impaired efficiency in behaviour , it is likely to have had some value . |
| 26 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 27 | However , tendencies in the economy and in the internal organization of firms were likely to have allowed this without too great an increase in risk to longer term financial viability for the larger operators . |
| 28 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 29 | People who lived longer were more likely to have spent some or all of the last year of their lives in residential homes . |
| 30 | Am I likely to have read any of it ? ’ |