Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 32 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | You 'll still have to do a few miles ? |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 ? |
| 39 | We would still have had an extremist council — not Labour , but Labour and Liberal combined . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 45 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 46 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 47 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
| 48 | A noted devotee both of the opera and the fair sex , he could hardly have avoided a dangerous liaison . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | You do not always have to have a specific link to other items on the syllabus . |
| 51 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 52 | So whilst many innovative cosmetics will be costly , you do n't always have to pay a high price for high tech beauty buys . |
| 53 | Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions . |
| 54 | Consequently he assumed that tribes possessing the classificatory kinship system , even if now separate and speaking different languages , must once have shared a common origin . |
| 55 | Their enthusiasm started wearing thin after half an hour or so , but would nonetheless have generated an incredible upturn in business . |
| 56 | The argument for the appellants was that there was no evidence from which the police could reasonably have apprehended an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 57 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |
| 58 | Which would probably have cheered an angry Oz reader , who signed himself ‘ J.F. ’ in a letter to the magazine that year . |
| 59 | In retrospect , I would probably have saved a little bit more , but there it is — I did manage to save a little bit anyway . |
| 60 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |