Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the petitioner has received any payment from the debtor since the petition was presented or the debtor has entered into an arrangement with the petitioner for the securing or compounding of the debt , the affidavit must state what dispositions of property the debtor has made so as to pay the debt or secure or compound for it , whether any property disposed of was the property of the debtor himself or some other person , and if the property was that of the debtor himself , whether the disposition was made with the approval of the court ( r 6.32(2) ) . |
| 2 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 3 | commission is now involved with a grant of forty thousand pounds , the situation has improved considerably and to bring the relevant matter up to date , er recently the dispute has been looking , the dispute of |
| 4 | She 'd promised to phone Julie that night to let her know she 'd arrived safely and to check on her sister . |
| 5 | That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due . |
| 6 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 7 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 8 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 9 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 10 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 11 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 12 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 13 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 14 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 15 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 16 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 17 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 18 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 19 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 21 | If ‘ the investigation ’ has ceased for the purpose of enabling the Director to question the suspect , then they must equally have ceased so as to terminate all her other powers . |
| 22 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 23 | all sorts of managing business and they had to work together and to hold group organisations . |
| 24 | When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name . |
| 25 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |
| 26 | To get there , Charles had to turn eastwards and to cross the Seine . |
| 27 | These were set out facing the way the explorer had gone so as to ensure a good view of him on his return . |
| 28 | Its somewhat sketchy character suggests , in fact , that his main purpose was simply to finish what he had begun rather than to give urgent or forceful expression to his views . |
| 29 | In particular , it was said that the employer was thereby saving on royalties payable to the patentee or licensee of alternative components ; the valve reduced processing costs and disposals of scrap ; output had increased ; and the frequency of employee injury had declined so as to reduce absences from work and claims for compensation . |
| 30 | He pointed out how the existing tax system had evolved so as to encourage the unfettered growth of car ownership and the transport of freight by lorry . |