Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 2 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 3 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 4 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 8 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 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 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If this had happened the rogue could not have conferred title upon the innocent purchaser ( unless under some other exception to the nemo dat principle ) for the rogue would no longer have had a voidable title . |
| 13 | She believed Spittals would somehow have treated a male officer differently — spoken less patronisingly , with more respect . |
| 14 | Could she somehow have taken a wrong turning on the straight , unbranching surface ? |
| 15 | We may already have built a rewarding business relationship together and feel that by offering you the shell Account Card this will help to consolidate it . |
| 16 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At this juncture you may just have noticed a slight differential in pace between the ‘ amateurs ’ in this democracy game , and the alleged professionals . |
| 20 | … and since this is the nature page , readers may just have noticed a Conservative Party pre-election poster featuring a giant , savings-sucking mosquito . |
| 21 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
| 22 | Whatever the truth of who it is on the tape , this chap could easily have monitored the whole conversation over 23 minutes . ’ |
| 23 | They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way . |
| 24 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 25 | Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’ |
| 26 | Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army . |
| 27 | However , the EDC may superficially have followed the sectoral pattern of the ECSC , but its fundamental implications were different . |
| 28 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 29 | Had we kept the scheme going , we could soon have accumulated a sizeable fighting force , ready to do battle on land , sea or air and happy to seize the controls of any passing battle-sub . |
| 30 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |