Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [art] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 2 | The young priest must have caught the new note of authority in his voice . |
| 3 | Only if the government of the day was prepared to fund an idea which could have secured a new source of energy , and helped revitalise a region , would the barrage dream have become a reality . |
| 4 | I think I could have bought a new washer in place of all the vibrators he 's bought . |
| 5 | Scientists may have found a new vaccine for malaria . |
| 6 | The health service may have acquired a new set of Thatcherite clothes : the bulky form beneath is still that of Nye Bevan . |
| 7 | I think the man in Edmund Wilson 's novel would have liked the new Hylas . |
| 8 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 9 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 10 | If a Labour Prime Minister had died or retired whilst in office the Parliamentary Party election procedure would have produced a new leader . |
| 11 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 12 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 13 | This would have appointed a new executive committee which , in turn , would have chosen a new chairman . |
| 14 | Now when retirement comes I shall have built a new life for myself and also be able to manage on a lower income . |
| 15 | Users of the main car park at Park Royal will have noticed a new fence at the back of the site . |