Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fishing for sand-eels alone has risen until last year ( 1989 ) a million tonnes were taken from the North Sea by EEC member countries . |
| 2 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 3 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 4 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 5 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 6 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 7 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 8 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 9 | Since then I have also been fortunate enough to have played in ten Test Matches for England . ’ |
| 10 | So , we ca n't use the fact that Earth has life to conclude that life must be probable enough to have arisen on another planet . |
| 11 | She and Phil Morris together had hit upon this virtue out of necessity since the machines could still print only one colour and new machinery for multi-coloured printing was much too expensive . |
| 12 | Yes , it was true he need not have wanted for female companionship over the past months . |
| 13 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 14 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 15 | YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies . |
| 16 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 17 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 18 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 19 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 20 | The neutrinos and antineutrinos , however , would not have annihilated with each other , because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly . |
| 21 | However , I think that the evil would not have appeared through violent fighting and killing , but through spiteful arguments and petty fights . |
| 22 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 23 | Even so , the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco , almost to the point of beatification , could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds . |
| 24 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 25 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 26 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 27 | Ordinarily he would not have spoken of one woman to another , but Miss van Williamsburgh was so straightforward , so unaffected , and Céline was always so near the surface of his thoughts . |
| 28 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 29 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 30 | She should not have come on this picnic . |