Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It obviously has had the opposite effect … |
| 2 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 3 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 4 | It may be that bizarre , self-destructive and anti-social behaviour which would once only have afflicted the true psychotic will increasingly come to typify what would otherwise have been purely neurotic disorders had they been internalized as hitherto . |
| 5 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 6 | Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party . |
| 7 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 8 | Nathan Cohen would have been ‘ pledged ’ to another idea ; his ‘ blood ’ would have been consecrated ; he would have been ‘ grave ’ — though perhaps not ‘ strict ’ ; he would better have protected the fragile ceremony ; owning the importance of his proper role in it . |
| 9 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 10 | For those daft enough to have missed the last issue , Black Night is a twopart text driven adventure game , in which a peaceful medieval village was brought to its knees by an evil warlord . |
| 11 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 15 | One US daily had found the previous year that claims about Iran 's original Fao offensive were contradictory and that ‘ neither assertion can be confirmed ’ . |
| 16 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 17 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 18 | To Leonard , who long had felt the masterful power of passion — when the guests become tyrants — Layton 's honesty was as refreshing as his candour was liberating . |
| 19 | But they have written to one another for ten years , hardly knowing why , and perhaps have found the greater satisfaction in it because it is a luxury , not the fulfilment of a need . |
| 20 | Thus has emerged the medical concept of ‘ brain-stem death ’ . |
| 21 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |
| 22 | ( GUIL meanwhile has approached the other SPY , brow creased in thought . ) |
| 23 | In Tait , where Lord Clyde considered that the clerk should not have rejected the late application , his Lordship ordered the board to hold a meeting to consider the application under s.31(2) . |
| 24 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 25 | Last year 's winner , Quinlan Terry , would not have beaten the second horse , the subsequent Group One race winner Ile De Chypre , had that rival not been drawn on the far side . |
| 26 | One lifeguard said , ‘ Ace may not have ridden the biggest wave , but he 's sure got the biggest mouth . ’ |
| 27 | Though the shooting on the film set , if it was n't accidental , implied that Nigel Steen knew of his involvement , he still might not have realized the direct connection with Jacqui , and certainly was no nearer getting the Hereford Road address . |
| 28 | He could not have endured the clamouring siren bells that marked an alarm and that caused A area to be sealed down , passage in and out of the Citadel suspended until the malfunction was located . |
| 29 | I reminded him of my advice that he should not have renounced the Upper House so speedily . |
| 30 | 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 . |