Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 2 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 3 | It may be that bizarre , self-destructive and anti-social behaviour which would once only have afflicted the true psychotic will increasingly come to typify what would otherwise have been purely neurotic disorders had they been internalized as hitherto . |
| 4 | Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in . |
| 5 | A final price ( striking price ) is chosen at which all the shares will be sold ( even those tendering higher prices for the shares will only have to pay the striking price ) . |
| 6 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
| 7 | Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party . |
| 8 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 9 | Nathan Cohen would have been ‘ pledged ’ to another idea ; his ‘ blood ’ would have been consecrated ; he would have been ‘ grave ’ — though perhaps not ‘ strict ’ ; he would better have protected the fragile ceremony ; owning the importance of his proper role in it . |
| 10 | But you do n't necessarily have to say the whole number . |
| 11 | Well you do n't necessarily have to bring the collective unconscious , do you ? |
| 12 | McDevitt has not been arrested ( as of the beginning of the second week of June ) but his role in a bungled 1980 robbery and his peddling of an art theft inspired screenplay in Hollywood have raised hopes that authorities may finally have cracked the perplexing case . |
| 13 | Before applying for the order the LEA would normally have to consult the local authority social services committee . |
| 14 | If the economic and social structure of our community develops in such a way that in retrospect it seems a conventionalist strategy would have been more suitable , then pragmatism will already have brought the reigning pattern of adjudication very close to conventionalism . |
| 15 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 16 | Yeah I think you 'll just have to wipe the whole thing out and do it again . |
| 17 | Whatever the truth of who it is on the tape , this chap could easily have monitored the whole conversation over 23 minutes . ’ |
| 18 | They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way . |
| 19 | Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’ |
| 20 | However , the EDC may superficially have followed the sectoral pattern of the ECSC , but its fundamental implications were different . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice . |
| 24 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So many , in fact , that even with our road hungry Citroën we could n't possibly have sampled the complete menu in the available time . |
| 27 | So many , in fact , that even with our road hungry Citroën we could n't possibly have sampled the complete menu in the available time . |
| 28 | How could Vic possibly have identified the human blood , for instance ? |
| 29 | In addition to wall displays thought needs to be given to the equipment which can be used in the room , e.g. does the teacher always have to use the overhead projector or slide projector with the whole class or can groups of pupils go and view a selection of slides independently as needed ? |
| 30 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |