Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 2 | But then you would know about that — your business , that must have taken a fair amount of hard work . ’ |
| 3 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 4 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 5 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 6 | At the actual erm meeting which put this into practice the Conservatives suggested a phased in method , some now and some later , and this would have relieved a certain amount of hardship . |
| 7 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
| 8 | Mr Lynch said that could have had a disastrous effect on the whales , which use their own inbuilt sonar system to navigate . |
| 9 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 10 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
| 11 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
| 12 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 13 | These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school . |
| 14 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I suppose that would have irritated a Socialist Republican Feminist like you . ’ |
| 16 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 17 | F4 A minimum of two of your crew are fit and active and both will have completed a Fal Sail ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course the same year you 're taking the holiday . |