Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 2 | But then you would know about that — your business , that must have taken a fair amount of hard work . ’ |
| 3 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 4 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 5 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 6 | At the actual erm meeting which put this into practice the Conservatives suggested a phased in method , some now and some later , and this would have relieved a certain amount of hardship . |
| 7 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
| 8 | Then , while the vapour condensed into oceans the high percentage of CO 2 would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | If anything , the Sylvie of old would have preferred a noisy wake , frenetic dancing , a bacchic rite . |
| 10 | To have got it ready by December 29th would have meant a fearful rush . |
| 11 | Mr Lynch said that could have had a disastrous effect on the whales , which use their own inbuilt sonar system to navigate . |
| 12 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 13 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
| 14 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
| 15 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 16 | These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school . |
| 17 | The 5/ a week given in 1908 to those aged over seventy would have made a significant contribution to the pre-war family economy , but the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women 's Organisations and members of the Fabian Women 's Group felt that this should be weighed against the increased friction caused by an old person coming into an already overcrowded home , pointing out that elderly people 's ideas of hygiene and childrearing might not be desirable , an argument that appealed to the infant welfare movement . |
| 18 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 19 | Winning entente floral would have meant a big tourism boost for cheltenham — so what went wrong ? |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I suppose that would have irritated a Socialist Republican Feminist like you . ’ |
| 21 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 22 | The advent of Dutch William in 1688 may have brought a Protestant ruler , but it brought one already embroiled in war with Louis XIV , and ended a period in which the offshore island had played small part in the struggles of continental Europe . |
| 23 | Even if the food does arrive , even if Ethiopia 's overstretched infrastructure can manage to distribute it , the drought of 1982 will have dealt a devastating blow to the country 's hopes of feeding itself . |
| 24 | F4 A minimum of two of your crew are fit and active and both will have completed a Fal Sail ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course the same year you 're taking the holiday . |