Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fitting , in the 50th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain , that the Association should have engaged in a full range of activities aimed at meeting its responsibilities towards former members of the Royal Air Force , both men and women . |
| 2 | It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It suddenly seemed important to keep the conversation as close as possible to something you might have read in an old book . |
| 5 | Yet the question remains as to what Baldwin thought he might have attempted in a long night of ‘ reasoning together ’ . |
| 6 | This was an unusual arrangement which might have worked in a perfect world . |
| 7 | It seems possible that the extensive exposure to the stimuli experienced by the experimental subjects in the first stage of training might have resulted in a latent inhibition effect that would obscure any other source of transfer . |
| 8 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 9 | It is possible that , over time , the simple loss of the left systemic arch in the crocodilian heart could have resulted in an avian double-pump which would have left the dinosaur ‘ free to evolve ’ tachymetabolism . |
| 10 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |
| 11 | Once again , you know , you 'd have thought in a green field construction site that you would n't get access problems and in er , a restricted area like a city centre building or er , a you would get access problems . |
| 12 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 13 | Voluntary work in the community can be just as useful as anything you may have done in a paid capacity . |
| 14 | Many of those aspects of your personality which you may have perceived in a negative way might be regarded by others as positive elements of your character . |
| 15 | Some firms may have grown in an unplanned , unforeseen manner , others may have expanded in order to acquire greater prestige and so on . |
| 16 | But both decisions were at the request of the race organizers who felt any cancellation or withdrawal may have resulted in a mass exodus of spectators from the circuit which would have hindered rescue operations . |
| 17 | As a few of these modules may have started in a previous session , or may be expected to finish in a future session , some will count in statistics for more than one session . |
| 18 | A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture . |
| 19 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 20 | The gang would have come in a high-powered motor launch , not in an ordinary punt , hired from the boat-yard half a mile upstream . |
| 21 | Eric would have to travel in a military train . |
| 22 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 23 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 24 | The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state , and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on . |
| 25 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 26 | ( Incidentally , if Mary had thought , she would have slipped in a personal note instead of conveying the message secondhand through someone else . ) |
| 27 | To use cc:Mail , users will have to plug in an external modem . |