Example sentences of "have [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 32 | the jacket was the uniform of Britain 's 95th Rifles , though it was now so threadbare and patched that it might have belonged to a tramp . |
| 33 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
| 34 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 35 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 36 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 37 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 38 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 39 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 40 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 41 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 42 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 43 | It can not be the case , however , that every initial configuration would have led to a universe like the one we observe . |
| 44 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 45 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 46 | This situation might have led to a drive for better theory for public sector accounting , to sustain these ad hoc policies — but it has not . |
| 47 | These factors may have led to a decrease in the exposure of the colonic mucosa to carcinogens and may have protected the colon and negated any effect of the modest increases in the proliferative zone in the distal colon . |
| 48 | A greater use of comparison , in addition to immanent critique , might have led to a lessening of prejudice , elitism and class — and Euro-centrism . |
| 49 | The magistrate said the words were neither abusive or insulting but could have led to a breach of the peace . |
| 50 | it would have led to a Sterling crisis and we 've had enough of that |
| 51 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 52 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 53 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 54 | A pity , say analysts , that it did not come off : America 's biggest-ever bank merger could have led to a barrelful of such deals — and not before time . |
| 55 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 56 | Much may have happened to a flue , both during its closure , and when it was previously in use . |
| 57 | First I 'm afraid I do have to admit to a bit of deception on my part . ’ |