Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 5 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class . |
| 8 | ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy . |
| 9 | And they could just as easily have hopped on a train to any other part of the country . " |
| 10 | He used his pace and aerial strength and created some chances , one of his passed could easily have resulted in a goal . |
| 11 | But this latest attack is the worst , and could so easily have resulted in a loss of life . |
| 12 | It was the last place in the world she would ever have chosen for a tryst , as she would tell him when he turned up . |
| 13 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 14 | It may possibly have begun as a baptistry or succeeded a cult centre at the spring head . |
| 15 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 16 | The largest so far identified lies west of Ryknild Street , emphasizing the fact that the road may once have acted as a settlement boundary . |
| 17 | After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune . |
| 18 | ‘ They would probably have jumped on a train and gone to London . |
| 19 | Around the east side of the defences , a possible flood bank may also have doubled as a bypass road , though this is probably relatively late . |
| 20 | In addition , divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching . |
| 21 | It may also have acted as a service centre for the nearby imperial estate centred on Combe Down and for the numerous rich villas which grew up in the vicinity . |
| 22 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 23 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 24 | Otherwise , it would by now have degenerated into a state of complete disorder , in which everything would be at the same temperature . |
| 25 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 26 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 27 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 28 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 30 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |