Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 2 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 3 | We can hypothesize that he would not have survived the rigorous processes of peer review in the British system and it is exceedingly difficult to envisage him negotiating the hazards of leading a party from the dispatch box in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 5 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 6 | Walking through the streets of Cristales to the school where she taught , Sister Teresa de Jesus Ramirez Vanegas may not have seen the recent threats scrawled on the village walls : ‘ Soon Cristales will be in mourning ’ … |
| 7 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 8 | But Walter Machin should not have got the mechanical details wrong . |
| 9 | They may not have mastered the Mad ones ' darkly comical undercurrent , but the Franks ' cheery exterior need n't preclude them from participating in some sussed ponderings . |
| 10 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 11 | 1 should not have let the three days expire . |
| 12 | The marriage of Chlothild , therefore , may not have had the ominous implications which the bishop of Tours attributed to it . |
| 13 | In some areas , of course , the changes may have been more apparent than real and the necessity of being eligible for election may not have changed the actual personnel who continued to dominate rural politics . |
| 14 | The potential advantage of more frequent dosing would have been at most a rather small one therefore and would not have changed the main conclusions of this study . |
| 15 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 16 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 17 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 18 | The harshness of those living-conditions , with the special emphasis on working-class housewives having to feed , clothe and generally look after a large family , was reflected by the lower standards of living , the deprivations all around , widespread poverty , with few families ever having experienced the beneficial effects of a holiday in the country or at the sea-side . |
| 19 | Lyotard similarly has proposed a de-differentiated semiotics . |
| 20 | It will also have learned a few lessons in how not to go about setting up a business . |
| 21 | Fergus did not say it , but he thought that Dierdriu would hear the cry , and he thought , as well , that she would also have experienced the immense lonelinesses , the sudden fierce panics , because it was inevitable that when you were a creature not quite Human , you would instinctively look for your own kind . |
| 22 | Local tradition may indicate where cottages stood until recently , but the fieldworker should be aware that much earlier structures may also have occupied the same sites . |
| 23 | What you would like to find , of course , is just one fuel tank because you think Andropulos is going to claim that he did n't abandon ship because he thought another fuel tank was about to go and he did n't want his precious passengers splashing about in a sea of blazing fuel oil which would , of course , also have destroyed the rubber dinghies . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Howard Davies , controller of the commission , said yesterday that local authorities should by now have overcome the administrative difficulties of housing benefit changes . |
| 25 | Out have gone the autumnal shades , in have come bold contrasts of saturated reds and greens . |
| 26 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 27 | That might sound a little over the top , but the truth is that Quakers were streets ahead of Shrewsbury , and could well have surpassed the four goals which Hartlepool scored on their visit to Gay Meadow . |
| 28 | The significance of these beliefs in creating a commonsense culture of taken-for-granted racism in Britain is difficult to underestimate , although widespread illiteracy may well have protected the subordinate classes from the level of immersion in racism experienced by the upper classes who were fed a growing diet of racist mythology in fiction , newspapers and missionary tracts ( Lorimer , 1978 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 118–19 ) . |
| 29 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 30 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |