Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery . |
| 2 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 3 | After all , you 'll have to move pretty fast to do all that in two years , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | And if Rod sells this house I 'll have to find somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 5 | As you embark on the F-Plan you might have to work quite energetically to convince yourself that the supposed virtues of the old low-carbohydrate method of dieting have been disproved by recent research . |
| 6 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 7 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 8 | ‘ And then we 'd have to come here tomorrow to deal with the car . |
| 9 | Governments would have to undertake solemnly not to seek to influence it . |
| 10 | By the time they were old enough to ride ( another three years ) they would have cost considerably more to keep ! |
| 11 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 12 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 13 | I would have to think carefully how to present Archie 's plight . |
| 14 | Of course one effect of the making of these revelations would have been to put D's record ( if he had one ) in issue as well , so that the jury would have had even more to think about to assist them in the weighing of the evidence in this case or ( depending on how you look at it ) to distract them from it . |
| 15 | This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey , but would have taken much longer to collect . |
| 16 | Auditors and tax specialists will have to liaise more closely to ensure that internal procedures allow deadlines to be met . |
| 17 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 18 | ‘ Retailers will have to work much harder to persuade shoppers to part with their money . ’ |