Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Well , we 'll just have to have a male crone for today , ’ replied Miss Thorne in a dangerously quiet voice .
32 I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night .
33 As it was , the most she could hope for was his speedy return to Hong Kong , but for now she supposed she would just have to endure a certain amount of contact , as he had warned her earlier at the party just before leaving her with Cavell Fielding and Penny Seu Chen .
34 At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) .
35 Whatever the truth of who it is on the tape , this chap could easily have monitored the whole conversation over 23 minutes . ’
36 They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way .
37 Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself .
38 Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’
39 Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army .
40 However , the EDC may superficially have followed the sectoral pattern of the ECSC , but its fundamental implications were different .
41 D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ .
42 THE Government will soon have to tackle the thorny question of the ‘ involuntary repatriation ’ of Vietnamese boat people , Lord Brabazon of Tara , the Foreign Office Minister of State , told the House of Lords yesterday .
43 The ITV companies pay royalties only after sales , but they will soon have to negotiate a new deal .
44 Had we kept the scheme going , we could soon have accumulated a sizeable fighting force , ready to do battle on land , sea or air and happy to seize the controls of any passing battle-sub .
45 LEARNER drivers may soon have to take a written exam as part of their tests .
46 With legislative elections due to be held the following year , de Gaulle knew that he might soon have to face a hostile majority committed to clawing back power from the president .
47 She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life .
48 Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process .
49 There was no inherent cost advantage in moving over to an entirely new financing system and it was also clear that whatever system was chosen , taxation would still have to finance a giant share of the service .
50 For , of course , no matter what it decides , it will still have to comprise a desirable process for the market makers and it will still be up to investors to risk putting their money into the companies concerned .
51 Even when the government runs a budget surplus the Bank of England will still have to manage the national debt ( the accumulated borrowing from the past ) .
52 You will still have to do a little detective work first , to make sure that you are cutting into the circuit cable itself and not into a spur .
53 And , if he had moved any farther down the course , would he still have had a clear view of Captain Brown waving his flag to signal a false start ?
54 We would still have had an extremist council — not Labour , but Labour and Liberal combined .
55 In fact , nearly all the breeders are based round the London area , which would still have meant a difficult journey to collect a bird , even if I could find one .
56 I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower .
57 But in numerical terms this factor can hardly have made a major impact — the Max Planck Institutes permanently employ only 2000 researchers , compared with a total of 76 000 university academics of whom more than 20 000 are professors .
58 A noted devotee both of the opera and the fair sex , he could hardly have avoided a dangerous liaison .
59 If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman .
60 One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases .
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