Example sentences of "have [be] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 2 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 4 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 5 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 6 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 7 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 8 | Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non-rational . |
| 9 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 10 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 11 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 12 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 13 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 14 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 15 | Of course , the easiest thing to do would have been to change someone into a frog or snail or some other small creature which could easily be kept hidden in a box until she returned . |
| 16 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 17 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 18 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 19 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 20 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 21 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 22 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 23 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 24 | I supposed that I ought to have brought the Ghost down too , but the priority had been to save myself from what seemed like imminent electrocution . |
| 25 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 26 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 27 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |
| 28 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |