Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attack their anti-racist policies would have exposed Labour to ( more ) accusations of racism ; far easier to attack the much less extensive lesbian and gay policies ; and if that meant abandoning lesbians and gays to isolation and intimidation , so be it . |
| 2 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 3 | Of course this will take some getting used to and the referees will have to work hard to be consistent . |
| 4 | Lower Manhattan must have looked confusing to them as several different neighbourhoods met at the end of the island , at Coenties Slip . |
| 5 | At times in the prolonged imperial affair the pope may have looked close to losing face but the overall purpose of curial policy was never weakened nor diminished . |
| 6 | The nagging doubt remains , however , that the thing might have looked blue to me , and that I had simply not realised that it was to the thing 's colour that I was expected to respond . |
| 7 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 8 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 9 | If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed . |
| 10 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 11 | Which mortgage can not be held responsible for any out date of information that may have occurred due to changes taking place after the editorial deadline . |
| 12 | We might have got used to the names — Sites of Special Scientific Interest , Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty , Marine Nature Reserves , Environmentally Sensitive Areas — and perhaps even the initials , but how many people are aware of what they actually mean ? |
| 13 | By then you will have got used to some bad pronunciation habits . |
| 14 | Although I may not have got near to the ‘ God ’ of that particular place , those hundreds of hours spent in chapel were not wasted . |
| 15 | ‘ It was over before we knew it , ’ said Taliesin later , ‘ and even if it had not been , I do not think we could have got near to the Lad . ’ |
| 16 | It may have become apparent to the counsellor that counsellees are ‘ locked ’ into feelings which are affecting the way they are leading their lives , but are apparently more content to hold on to the feelings than to resolve the difficulties which arise from them . |
| 17 | One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth . |
| 18 | It should have become apparent to the observant reader that there are marked inconsistencies between the theory of finance as described in chapter 1 and the basis of strategic analysis as described in chapter 4 . |
| 19 | The expression " capital sum " does not include any sum which could not have become payable to the settlor except in one of the events specified in the proviso to TA 1988 , s673(3) ( these relate to bankruptcy , assignment , marriage and death under the age of 25 ) . |
| 20 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 21 | Soon it must have become obvious to the story-tellers that such a huge land could no longer be fitted into the Mediterranean , and so it was resited beyond the Gates of Hercules . |
| 22 | It may have become obvious to Pius and his advisers that a Council would not be as easy to manipulate as they had imagined . |
| 23 | It must have become clear to us by now that a committee of different subject specialists trading off time and contents with each other is an unwieldy and potentially dangerous body . |
| 24 | ‘ But I may have become blind to its charms . |
| 25 | Formula feeds commonly contain maize ( corn ) and tapioca , as well as cow 's milk , so your child may have become sensitive to these . |
| 26 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |
| 27 | It may have sounded odd to only have an 18in tube for a four foot tank , but this is another attempt to try to establish a more natural environment . |
| 28 | The theory must have sounded wonderful to the think-tankers who dreamed it up . |
| 29 | Your evening in Horsfall Woods will have brought good to you , too ! |
| 30 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |