Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 2 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 3 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 4 | Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade . |
| 5 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 6 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 7 | Whilst the smallest kind of town can only have served as a market point , those with populations exceeding 500 usually provided more extensive services to their localities , and some had developed specialised manufactures even if on a modest scale . |
| 8 | While this can only have arisen on the basis of particular cases , it too has now become fossilized ; it is now described in terms of relative order of fixed groups of adjectives , and there are even cases where purely formal requirements concerning serial order actually override the organization appropriate to the semantics of what is intended ( see Chapter 8 for some instances ) . |
| 9 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 10 | Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily . |
| 11 | The Palace believes that information could only have come from the princess 's office . |
| 12 | After that , there was a series of horrific , shaming cameos that could only have come from the unconscious . |
| 13 | Your investigators now will not only have to keep to the law but they will have to obey regulations as well , or only occasionally and with their eye very much over their shoulder slide past them . |
| 14 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 15 | During the period the hired car will be insured under this policy in exactly the same way as your own car is insured and you will only have to pay for the petrol used . |
| 16 | Fribble was not really very much of a loss to this expedition , because he would only have got in the way , falling asleep at important meetings ( Lugh liked meetings ) , and eating all of their supplies . |
| 17 | Since there was no sparing of the short-pitched stuff , and no intervention from the umpires , to continue would probably only have resulted in an injury anyway . |
| 18 | Before a BBC Radio Cleveland debate yesterday , he was obliged to explain off air that because of an undemocratic stomach bug he might suddenly have to leave in the middle of the proceedings . |
| 19 | We would thus have to resort to the use of overlays , with one overlay per attribute . |
| 20 | The advocates of such a holistic viewpoint would have been far more willing to accept the need for preserving the complex web of natural relationships , and would thus have gravitated towards the environmentalist movement . |
| 21 | We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition . |
| 22 | Equally , Thames & Hudson 's ‘ biography ’ of Keith Haring may have seemed a brave piece of publishing to the general bookseller but , supported by T-shirts , badges , posters and cards from te Neues , it pulled in customers who would not normally have stepped inside a Blackwell shop , thanks largely to the non-book items and the extraordinary point of sale from T&H . |
| 23 | This will help as the experienced school librarian will already have gone through the process of justifying and acquiring a microcomputer and can anticipate the types of questions which might be asked by senior staff in the school . |
| 24 | Due to the conserved structure and the occurrence of identical insertion sites of mitochondrial introns , it has been speculated that they may already have existed in the progenitor of fungal mitochondria ( 7 ) . |
| 25 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 26 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 27 | First in the world to deploy an ICBM , it took the Soviet Union ten years longer than the United States to develop a reliable guidance system ; it has also taken 25 years to develop a quiet nuclear submarine , and having set the pace with anti-satellite weapons , the USSR may already have fallen behind the United States in this field . |
| 28 | No doubt coach Jack Rowell will already have pencilled in the champagne breakfast he gives his players every time they win the league or cup for May 2nd — the day after the Pilkington Cup final . |
| 29 | By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class . |
| 30 | If so , that Hidden Master must already have known about the hydra . |