Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |
| 2 | Susan 's activities must have been well known to the police . ’ |
| 3 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 4 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
| 5 | If curve B applies then the erasure could have been largely confined to the lull between formation and the subsequent peak in bombardment , possibly extending into that bombardment . |
| 6 | Such a story would have been heavily damaging to the electoral prospects of the Labour Party as it was pledged to end such speculation . |
| 7 | The most recent , involving the claim that his mental state might not have been adequately conveyed to the jury during his original trial , had been upheld by Judge John Noonan of the Court of Appeals of the ninth US Circuit based in San Francisco , on March 30 , 1990 . |
| 8 | Yet we can now see that Castells 's all-embracing theory could never have been straightforwardly extended to the particular kinds of class and social relations constituting particular societies and localities . |
| 9 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 10 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 11 | Perhaps she said things that would have been better left to silence . |
| 12 | His forecasting staff in the Treasury might have been better suited to dreaming up horoscopes , and at times officials seem to have been deliberately distorting figures for political ends . |
| 13 | A nursery high chair would have been better suited to his bent and miniature height . |
| 14 | A view was expressed that merit would have been better attached to the group award , rather than to every individual unit . |
| 15 | In most cases the development of these functions would have gone hand in hand with the growth of the settlement and would have been directly related to the increasing dependence of the surrounding hinterland on the goods and services which it could provide . |
| 16 | My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day . |
| 17 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 18 | He declared : ‘ You 'd have been safer belaying to a daffodil stalk ! ’ . |
| 19 | As there is no apparent sulphate reduction in these zones and the SRB can not have been recently introduced to these deeply isolated environments , we speculate that the SRB must survive by reducing Fe(III)-reducing environments is needed . |
| 20 | The first of the preliminary sketches for the Demoiselles , on the other hand , suggest that at first Picasso may have been more drawn to Cézanne 's earlier , more romantic figure pieces . |
| 21 | Transmission of infection is occurring both among the young , who may not have been fully exposed to the health education of the mid-1980s , and in older age groups , who may have changed to unsafe sex practices after previously heeding health advice . |
| 22 | Kenneth Branagh would have been hard pushed to better the sheer professionalism on display . |
| 23 | Without tools , when the original Shakers landed , they would have been hard put to it to manage . |
| 24 | Yet had she been asked what that destination was she would have been hard put to it to answer . |
| 25 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 26 | These he carried home , partly because the little room lacked storage space , partly to appease the secretive , magpie instinct which was part of his nature : he loved to keep , hide , obfuscate , cover his tracks ; he had fantasies in the watches of the night of other scholars stealing a march on him and publishing the definitive study of Walter Machin first ( though how that would be possible , in view of his privileged position , he would have been hard put to it to say ) . |
| 27 | These were the conditions of a new consensus ; far-reaching proposals for redistribution and public control over private interests , which could have been dangerously aligned to one political party , became shared by both main parties . |
| 28 | AN INVESTIGATION into allegations that dozens of black and Asian children may have been wrongly sent to special schools in Strathclyde region has been initiated by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 29 | The prospect that perhaps hundreds of black and Asian children may have been wrongly consigned to special schools because of a failure properly to understand their needs is one which education authorities have been reluctant to confront . |
| 30 | Far from possessing the tact and sensitivity required to construct a harmonious relationship with the English church and restore Mary 's subjects ' confidence in the papacy , Paul was a rigid , inflexible pontiff who could hardly have been less suited to the task of cementing the reunion of England and Rome . |