Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 2 | A century ago she would have been sent abroad to govern India or Ireland . |
| 3 | The bodkin trick should have been completed beforehand to make the sleeve ready . |
| 4 | Remember , in five years , time , most of these people will either be press officers ( doing the same as you are , but with less loving care ) or they will have been kicked upstairs to edit a page instead of writing on it , thereby saving readers from any more of their insufferable prose . |
| 5 | Had he stayed , there was every chance that he might have been forced eventually to join the Militia — a thing few Titfords would face with relish ; but most significant of all , perhaps — apart from his obvious inner resilience and entrepreneurial spirit — he had the singular advantage of having well-off relations to latch onto in London . |
| 6 | They may have been left outside to dry before being fired . |
| 7 | The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to leave the open-market EC that was being built beforehand . |
| 8 | Since the quarrel which put the kingdoms of France and England at odds with each other was based upon historical differences , it was only reasonable that history should also have been used both to emphasise the differences between them , and to allow each to show itself how its own history and its own characteristics had developed . |
| 9 | The lance would have been used both to stab and as a weapon from throwing or as a lance on horseback . |
| 10 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
| 11 | The carvers were unlikely to be directly connected with the building of the church or the carpenters employed but would have been commissioned separately to provide these embellishments . |
| 12 | Manufacturing Manager — this person is responsible for the manufacturing and assembly processes , together with their associated product processes ( heat treatment , painting etc ) ; this work is carried out in accordance with Works Orders and schedules submitted by Production Planning & control ; Inspection has been included here , although it could have been located separately to provide an independent inspection service ; the Manufacturing Manager has a heavy responsibility for the recruitment , training , rewarding and retention of employees . |
| 13 | As in previous exhibitions , artists like Alcide Le Beau , Segonzac and Luc Albert Moreau , whose paintings were related to Cubism only in a most general way , were invited to show , and the title may have been chosen partly to allow for this . |
| 14 | Wide area networks , which may have been installed initially to link the geographically remote branches of a company , are increasingly expanding to enable the company to transact business with its customers and suppliers electronically — worldwide . |
| 15 | Thousands of pounds of tax-payers money would n't have been wasted just to have them settle a week before trial . |
| 16 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |