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

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1 Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown .
2 Perhaps Edward indeed was reluctant to embark on that wholesale hanging ; or may merely have assessed that this way he would force the Scots army into a rash and costly attack which he could repulse , and then get Berwick 's surrender .
3 ‘ Of course , Lieutenant , you will already have realized that this morning 's scramble is no exercise .
4 To avoid this kind of disaster health authorities in England and Wales will soon have to ensure that proper preparations for community care are made before inpatients who need such care are discharged .
5 In no way could I ever have imagined that this poem could have done anything but rouse the Church to action .
6 He could hardly have forgotten that five years earlier the authorities had required him to register under the Aliens Restriction Order .
7 The CFTC might well have felt that desperate moves were necessary to remind those in authority that it still exists .
8 Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House .
9 The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside .
10 Given the terms of reference , those who signed the majority Report might well have supposed that that part of the argument had been decided .
11 Opinion in Texas prison circles , with hindsight , seems to be that TDC should simply have admitted that various provisions for prisoners were unsatisfactory and inadequate .
12 When Cruz , a substitute opponent , beat him in the Nevada desert , the Ulsterman could never have guessed that six years later , from a Belfast court room , he would receive a bigger blow than the Texan ever dealt him .
13 ‘ We were all aware that they were close but would never have suggested that this kind of intimacy existed between them . ’
14 They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come — if at all .
15 Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it .
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