Example sentences of "have [been] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without actually opening it , which would have been to examine the beast physiologically , Hull inferred numerous relationships between levels of motivation ( drive ) and the extent of learning ( habit strength ) that rendered a response more or less probable . |
| 2 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 3 | His normal reaction would have been to swing the car in a U-turn to return and tackle the driver of the tractor . |
| 4 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 5 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 6 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 7 | If she wanted us to blame Burrows by faking an entry point , surely the simplest thing would have been to leave the window open ? |
| 8 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 9 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 10 | The only possible resolution of the difficulty would have been to obtain the consent of both Mr. Brant and the plaintiff to reveal Mr. Perot 's interest to the other . |
| 11 | How much more eager those warriors would have been to contact a foe face to face . |
| 12 | But , having raised expectations , the regime then stopped moving towards the logical sequel , which would have been to offer the electorate an opportunity to replace its present leadership with a new one . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |
| 14 | Will he understand that had he wished , as his statement claimed , to remain within the law , his proper course would have been to accept the court 's ruling and then appeal , not to flout the court 's judgment ? |
| 15 | The sensible response would have been to increase the number of officers , not to cut them . |
| 16 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 17 | Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used . |
| 18 | Indeed , the intention of the English negotiators when the Second Treaty of London was drawn up may well have been to make the French an offer they would be bound to refuse . |
| 19 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |
| 20 | It is likely that the motive for the new designs may have been to enhance the dignity of the King and to stress his magnificence ; it is impossible to say if there was any deliberate intention of claiming additional status for him , or if this was a subsequent interpretation of the imagery . |
| 21 | To have given full details at that earlier point would have been to remove the sting from the report to Eli , and spoil its shock . |
| 22 | If he 'd come without a lighter or matches , surely the obvious thing would have been to remove the box from the chained brass holder attached to the heater . |
| 23 | To have remained in the contest under these circumstances would have been to play the role of a " spoiler " said Tsongas , and , thereby , to " become the agent of the re-election of George Bush " . |
| 24 | His mistake may have been to assume the election was won before it was fought . |
| 25 | WHEN Raymond Leppard , prone to roar ‘ no Max Bruch ! ’ at those whose Baroque style he regarded as over fulsome , withdrew from Tuesday 's Tunnell Trust concert , the shrewdest move , perhaps , might have been to change the programme . |
| 26 | A more likely alternative would have been to change the tax rate , which raises disposable income by , initially inducing expenditure rises determined by the multiplier applied to that term ; i.e. so that |
| 27 | The effect of these operations must surely have been to shorten the war . |
| 28 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 29 | The immediate and natural recourse of a woman set on a highly militant search after holiness , an escape from marriage and its social duties and a private life , would have been to enter a convent . |
| 30 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |