Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 2 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 3 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 4 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 5 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 6 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 7 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 8 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 9 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |