Example sentences of "[be] [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 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 3 | I am fortunate to have had enough support to recover from the hell of being abused . |
| 4 | ‘ We are delighted to have created this prestigious exhibition which has been well received and enjoyed by so many visitors . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We are delighted to have achieved this within a year . |
| 6 | Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director comments : ‘ We are delighted to have received this prestigious retail award . |
| 7 | Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director , comments ‘ We are delighted to have received these three awards . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A junior hacksaw : You 're likely to have to tackle some small metal-cutting jobs from time to time . |
| 11 | In the country , blackbirds and mistle thrushes are likely to have stripped most of the glistening haws by the end of November . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Slated urban roofs are likely to have reached this state after about eighty years . |
| 14 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |
| 15 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |
| 16 | Recent changes in the social security system are likely to have intensified these widening income inequalities among families with children . |
| 17 | Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments . |
| 18 | Poulter argues that it would have been inappropriate to have given all the principal religious traditions represented in Great Britain equal weight in the RE syllabus , since it would leave Christianity being reflected in just one-sixth of the course . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Master Corbett , you 've told me how I am supposed to have killed this woman , but not the reason why . ’ |
| 21 | This being the case it would have been good to have had some assessment of Kellner 's copy of the cello suites , recently issued in facsimile by Bärenreiter together with Anna Magdalena 's copy and two others . |
| 22 | I mean this talks about what this particular booklet does , and and why we 're saying , it would have been useful to have had this probably for our last meeting really . |
| 23 | If this seems like a catalogue of disaster , do n't be discouraged : you are unlikely to have hit all of these problems on your first outing , and forewarned is forearmed . |
| 24 | Such plots are unlikely to have provided all the necessary food for their inhabitants , so not surprisingly traces of fields have been identified which predate the late cemetery in the Northover suburb . |
| 25 | In 1985 , 21,838 women received reduced rates of benefits , of whom an estimated 78 per cent would have been unlikely to have had any independent entitlement to any other benefit , thus rendering them economically dependent upon their partners ( unpublished statistics , DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 27 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 28 | It was then that she said something which later I remembered and understood : ‘ I 'm sorry to have to do this to you , dear … |
| 29 | I 'm sorry to have brought this down to ! |
| 30 | I 'm delighted to have secured this deal at long last . |