Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 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 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 9 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 12 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 13 | 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) . |
| 14 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 15 | If the patient has been misled or misinformed he may not have given a genuine consent or refusal . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | What can be seen is that Parliament can not have intended an implied limitation along the lines of Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One lifeguard said , ‘ Ace may not have ridden the biggest wave , but he 's sure got the biggest mouth . ’ |
| 20 | I could not have imagined a better companion . |
| 21 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 22 | Sheila could not have desired a worse profession . |
| 23 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
| 24 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
| 25 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
| 26 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 27 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
| 28 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 29 | Louise would not have made an unsuccessful marriage in the first place , and she supposed her marriage must be unsuccessful , because Edward had told her that she was not a woman . |
| 30 | 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 . |