Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead of me was an elliptical circle of maybe twenty people , the combined ages of whom must have seventy score and ten . |
| 2 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 3 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 4 | This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did . |
| 5 | The Dutch , for example , had what at least from their own point of view were admirable and generous plans for what might have turned out to be an independent Indonesia ; but , like the French , had failed to persuade their Republican adversaries that their ultimate freedom was assured in European hands . |
| 6 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 7 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 8 | We 'll have a bit of this type of We 'll have , have a bit of that tying wire . |
| 9 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 10 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 11 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 12 | Another half-hour of it would have sealed a momentous victory . |
| 13 | I want her back at Mass next Sunday , and if you ca n't persuade her , then this belt of mine 'll have to do the talking ! ’ |
| 14 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 15 | JUST when you may been ready to despair , it seems that this country of ours may have found something of its heart , or perhaps its soul . |
| 16 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 17 | After all , even a hardened reprobate like myself must have some standards to adhere to . |
| 18 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 19 | Just ordinary furniture like anyone would have I 'm surprised it is n't more glamorous somehow , only larger than life which is what you 'd expect I suppose |
| 20 | RAF teams from Abingdon had the unenviable task of moving the RAF Museum 's XL318 by road to Hendon , the real cost of which must have been mind-boggling . |
| 21 | Kathryn , who is married with an 18-month-old daughter , said she was just curious to know whether these experiences could be connected with reincarnation and says that at times : ‘ I feel restless , a sort of sad yearning for what could have been a past life . ’ |
| 22 | My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin ; but that period with her could have been deadly for me . |
| 23 | Astaxanthin ( 3:3 — dihydroxy — 4:4 -diketo — B -carotene ) and B-carotene both occur as chromoproteins in the integument of locusts and the green chromoprotein pigment of many insects ( known as insectoverdin ) is a complex , the yellow-orange component of which may have as its prosthetic group B-carotene ( Carausius ) , lutein ( Sphinx , Tettigonia ) or astaxanthin . |
| 24 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I did n't cry much — just a little weep for what might have been . |
| 26 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 27 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 28 | In Doctor Faustus whether heaven and hell are ‘ discovered ’ in a manner which confirms conventional expectations of them can have drastic implications for the play 's destination , the impact it makes on its audience . |
| 29 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 30 | A MOTHER who was involved in a hit-and-run horror , only weeks before she was due to give birth , last night cuddled the little baby boy who dispelled all her worst fears of what could have happened . |