Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While relative factor scarcities may have provided the required signals where there is a lucrative profit to be made , it is not the case for fragile areas and the small farmers who live there . |
| 2 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 3 | The FA 's insurers may have to cover the 23-year-old winger 's wages of £100,000-plus a year until he is fit , if Palace can prove their case , but the FA will argue it is not a new injury . |
| 4 | With the awful storms of late February still fresh in most people 's minds , those with four-wheel-drive cars must have found the extra traction a godsend . |
| 5 | The puppets are modelled on the famous illustrations by Tenniel — but Spitting Images must have influenced the formidable duchess and Tebbit-like cook and they stirred their pepper soup and sneezed . |
| 6 | This means that ( during reading aloud ) before a word reaches the response buffer , subsequent words must have reached the cognitive system — this being the only way that their semantic and syntactic features could come into play . |
| 7 | The court gave effect to this clause , stating that the parties should have considered the potential difficulties of using what the court called " a single alternative dispute resolution process " for all disputes under the contract before making their contract . |
| 8 | Mr Lawson 's words might have reassured the financial markets had he carried conviction as a man in complete charge of short-term economic policy ; instead he sounded faintly ridiculous . |
| 9 | However that avenue was never explored to its end ; and if it had been , one may doubt whether many readers would have grasped the total effect . |
| 10 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 11 | A search is now under way to find a medium with a reliably long shelf-life , because even if our present-day sound recordings last for a full century ( which is doubtful ) , our successors will have to copy the whole collection every hundred years or so . |
| 12 | The groups of units will have to satisfy the following criteria : |
| 13 | Drivers will have to pay the full amount from 1996 . |
| 14 | Radio 3 listeners will have heard the two ‘ previews ’ of the Moszkowski and Paderewski Concertos performed by Lane and Maksymiuk on successive Saturday afternoons during the summer of 1991 . |
| 15 | In these recessionary times , and with USA rugby currently without a major sponsor , the airing of ITV 's excellent programmes might have stirred the American general public 's interest in rugby . |
| 16 | Visitors may have drawn the first prototypes , for some purpose from to themselves . ’ |
| 17 | Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 . |
| 18 | Bouch can not vouch for this but suggests the number of visitors might have exceeded the available accommodation which in turn put prices up . |
| 19 | Its role could have been vital , for in theory skilful negotiators might have made the most of military situations which , at a given moment , greatly favoured one side rather than the other . |
| 20 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | In this respect the CNAA 's central concerns would have remained the same whatever policy governments formulated , so long as there were ‘ non-university ’ institutions seeking approval for their courses under the terms of the CNAA 's Charter . |
| 23 | The rounds would have extended the stage-set character of the architecture . |
| 24 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 25 | The APB recognises that companies will have to bear the additional costs of expanding the audit 's scope , but says that these will be borne more heavily by riskier companies . |
| 26 | In this way , the Minoans may have seen the enshrined trees as divinely appointed trysting-places where gods and mortal men and women might meet . |
| 27 | Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities . |
| 28 | He dialled Dottie 's number , trying not to dwell on thoughts of the times Michael Banks must have done the same from the same phone . |
| 29 | The word ‘ prostitution ’ is avoided ; its moral implications would have disturbed the economic tale , besides which there were girls in the audience . |
| 30 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |