Example sentences of "it [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 Not only does it apparently have the oldest version of the entry for 1020 ( see above ) , but under 1018 it has the death of an Abingdon abbot which is not in C. Other material now in D and E was probably only added after the Abingdon chronicle reached Canterbury .
2 Well it better have cos it 's right at the back of the kiln at the bottom and I do n't
3 Does it necessarily have to be the sharing of bread and wine ?
4 Does it necessarily have a fissiparous effect ?
5 Was it meant to be a chuckling advertisement for his own sensibility ; a tease about the gritty , unpolishable surface of the desert ; or might it just have been a joke on us ?
6 Does it just have one , one side to each tape ?
7 Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ?
8 And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ?
9 Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’
10 Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ?
11 Why could it not have been there always , hard and black from the start ?
12 Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ?
13 What canals , bridges and noble roads would it not have made for us ? ’
14 But would it not have been sensible to go and see for himself , before rushing off a wholly inaccurate letter ?
15 Would it not have been better to imagine the possibility of a different , better world ?
16 Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ?
17 ‘ Would it not have been more usual for your daughter to have stayed with her mother ? ’
18 If a pair of twins were born into one of these families , would it not have seemed significant indeed — a divine sign , a portent , a confirmation of expectations ?
19 But would it not have been better , he mused , to have left the banqueting hall and defended the Residency where there was a well ?
20 ‘ Could it not have been something innocent ? ’
21 She reflected that if Time had needed to deposit its flotsam on her doorstep , could it not have taken the form of a steady young man who caught the 5.30 train home each evening , and played cricket at the weekends ?
22 But , in that case , would it not have been enough to defend Saudi Arabia and maintain the pressure on Saddam Hussein through sanctions ?
23 Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ?
24 Could it or could it not have a bearing on this present case of murder ?
25 If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ?
26 Would it not have helped British farmers if he had said that he was determined to support us and ensure that we succeeded ?
27 Even had the bid been financed mainly with borrowed cash , would it not have been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ?
28 I was just wondering should it not have a photograph ?
29 If none of the original material is left in the preparation , how can it possibly have any therapeutic effect ?
30 It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’
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