Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given the size and importance of the Temple , and the prominent role of the moneychangers , Jesus 's overturning of their tables must have resulted in a full-scale riot . |
| 32 | It was obvious that the fish — the ‘ lowest ’ class within the vertebrate phylum — must have evolved from a pre-existing invertebrate form , yet this had occurred before fossils became plentiful in the rocks . |
| 33 | The three species of bee seem so closely related that they must have evolved from a single carrion-eating ancestor . |
| 34 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |
| 35 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 36 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 37 | And I ca n't remember — I think Michael must have come after A Lovely War , or maybe contemporary with it , I 'm not sure . |
| 38 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 39 | All the rulings have been accepted by the companies concerned , not always without some hard pounding en route , and the adverse publicity arising must have acted as a powerful deterrent to other companies contemplating the use of accounting treatments on a basis of doubtful motivation and justification . |
| 40 | ( b ) The request by the consumer must have occurred within a reasonable time of the occurrence of the damage ( s. 2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 41 | The interior cooling recorded by contraction at the surface must have persisted over a long period . |
| 42 | My Lords , section 87 does not stipulate that the successor must have resided at a particular house for 12 months but only that he should have resided with the deceased tenant for that period . |
| 43 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 44 | When things begin moving here you 'll have to deal with a new solicitor . ’ |
| 45 | Like that right , and she walked down the bus and this , the policeman said to the bus driver , oh you 'll have to hang on a wee minute because I have to speak to this woman here . |
| 46 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 47 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 48 | ‘ The greatest thing is telling him there is no point going to his mainstream school any longer if he is not going to get around and that he 'll have to go to a special school — at which point he explodes in terror and starts to make special efforts . |
| 49 | If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension . |
| 50 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 51 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 52 | This expert might have to deal with a wide variety of issues , including the builder's/lessor 's obligations to obtain planning permission , as well as the design and construction obligations , issues which are usually left to an arbitrator or an Official Referee of the High Court . |
| 53 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 54 | In a clumsier pair of hands , the novel might have begun with an Elizabethan cartographer , say , or a Caroline poet , and died at birth of irretrievable archness . |
| 55 | Although Toryism might have survived as a distinctive ideology , and although a Tory party with its own organisation might have continued to exist , the fact of the matter is that single-party government was established under George I and George II , and there was no swinging back and forth between Tory- and Whig-dominated administrations such as had happened under William and Anne . |
| 56 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 57 | We did not collect as much objective data as we might have done with a white group . |
| 58 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 59 | Agreement on Germany and the provision of Marshall Aid without strings might have led to a different outcome . |
| 60 | Audit new systems : evaluate present systems to identify mistakes and hence avoid their repetition and to identify areas where a small resource input might have led to a larger benefit . |