Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily .
4 Patients were told they would just have to live with the birthmarks .
5 We 'll just have to call in the receivers .
6 Why could n't I just have gone to the cops and reported my stuff missing ? 'Cos I was missing myself , that 's why .
7 Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ?
8 Although thus easy so far — albeit unexpectedly — he could hardly have guessed at the difficulties ahead .
9 None of these large animals could possibly have passed over the arms of the sea which now separates these countries , and their presence plainly indicates that a land communication must have existed since the origin of the species … ’
10 He was the best man we could possibly have had in the circumstances . ’
11 I thought : why do women always have to talk about the men they are interested in ?
12 This is the " dear green place " that its name may once have meant to the Celts .
13 Asked to predict the most likely site of synaptic plasticity , theoreticians would probably have opted for the interneurons , as these can clearly receive and modulate signals from many different inputs before dispatching them to varied outputs .
14 Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness .
15 They will also have to work through the consequences of other British racisms , especially towards Jewish people and the Irish , and the realignment of older Western Islamic polarities in the context of the Rush die scandal .
16 To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks , the salmon and the mountaineers .
17 I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise .
18 Eve looked out of the window down the town , standing as she must often have done over the years .
19 Also , their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class .
20 The aims of the new mental health task force , set up in January to monitor the mental health service modernisation programme ( p 000 ) , seem sensible , but if central data on the programme had been collected all along the team would not now have to go to the districts for information .
21 So , for instance , if you have an argument with the police er on a matter , you might very well have to say to the police , I think officer you were take that and say you 're a lying bastard .
22 The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 .
23 You would then have to wade through the manuals before you could continue .
24 The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals .
25 To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way .
26 But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time .
27 The Icelanders protested , not because they supported the cause of Facisim or German expansion — given the choice they would doubtless have stood with the Norwegians , fellow Vikings — but because they were not asked to choose .
28 Su'a said he thought the ball would otherwise have gone over the sticks .
29 While this is due in small measure to the axing of TOPS awards and the establishment of new courses leading to post-graduate diplomas which have attracted students who would otherwise have enrolled on a DMS course , the main reason has been the decline in the economy which has resulted in few companies being willing to sponsor students to undertake the course .
30 That expression of opinion by the Law Commission can have no relevance to the construction of the Act , whilst any bearing it might otherwise have had on the matters which the court should take into account in exercising its discretion whether to grant leave to apply for a residence order in respect of a child in the care of a local authority has clearly been superseded by the express provisions of the Act .
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