Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fergus did not say it , but he thought that Dierdriu would hear the cry , and he thought , as well , that she would also have experienced the immense lonelinesses , the sudden fierce panics , because it was inevitable that when you were a creature not quite Human , you would instinctively look for your own kind . |
| 3 | Mr Howard Davies , controller of the commission , said yesterday that local authorities should by now have overcome the administrative difficulties of housing benefit changes . |
| 4 | The significance of these beliefs in creating a commonsense culture of taken-for-granted racism in Britain is difficult to underestimate , although widespread illiteracy may well have protected the subordinate classes from the level of immersion in racism experienced by the upper classes who were fed a growing diet of racist mythology in fiction , newspapers and missionary tracts ( Lorimer , 1978 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 118–19 ) . |
| 5 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 6 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 7 | We may too readily have mocked the Tory ladies in their funny hats advocating primitive retribution , for what the socialist movement has not registered is that these ladies articulate a collective fear which women share . |
| 8 | The so-called Helsinki warning , also dismissed as unreliable ( and apparently for better reason ) , had at least saved the lives of those who would otherwise have occupied the vacant seats on Flight 103 . |
| 9 | But she could never have imagined the bright colours that filled her brain — a vivid , intoxicating , shifting kaleidoscope of wonder and pleasure and excitement and joy . |
| 10 | Tristan 's arrival had prevented her and she would never have found the right words to accompany the gift in any case . |
| 11 | I did n't want her to be evacuated without me , but I 'd never have left the old ladies . ’ |