Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi . |
| 2 | In his Preface to the Gardeners Dictionary , Miller invited communications on ‘ new experiments in relation to this art ’ and , at a time when scientific work was developing rapidly , this request alone would have attracted a large response . |
| 3 | A hand somewhere might have touched a secret spring , for a whole wall was turning on a hinge to reveal a hidden chamber . |
| 4 | They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system . |
| 5 | unresolved oedipal problems ( which formerly might have produced a typical hysteria ) may today lead to a state of unrestrained and self-destructive acting out , and to delinquency , simulating a picture of psychosis , as the ego remains weak and the superego ineffectual in the face of uncontrolled drives . |
| 6 | Not only did prostitutes frequent the theatre , but the street transvestite was sometimes associated with prostitution and possibly sodomy : Henriques notes a regulation dating from 1480 forbidding prostitutes to dress as men in public , and remarks : ‘ This masquerading presumably would have meant an added inducement to sodomy ’ ( Prostitution and Society , ii . |
| 7 | Many women retiring today may have paid a reduced rate contribution under a scheme which was abolished in 1978 . |
| 8 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 9 | In the midst of religious and political wars of startling insanity , the idea that God at least must have created a rational , knowable order must have acquired immense attraction in a world where religion and politics were still inseparable . |
| 10 | A goal then might have made a big difference . |
| 11 | The existing 100% Custom fees will be abolished , but all those wanting to sell Russian art abroad will have to pay a varying sum to the Federal National Heritage Service for such a permission . |