Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material .
2 The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon .
3 We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution !
4 In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress .
5 It must have fallen into the trap some time ago .
6 ‘ Biff said you do n't have to go under the machines any more . ’
7 Creators of the farce , US cinema giants Loews , say fans would have to go to the cinema 68 times before seeing the same plot .
8 Mrs ze Schluderpacheru was doing the accounts on her musical wrist-calculator , working how out much of her take would have to go to the yaks this quarter .
9 And a woman aged 42 now would have to work until the year 2015 when she is 65 .
10 She was looking at Aggie now , and Aggie said , ‘ Well , there will be holidays , dear , there will be holidays ; ’ then turning to the Mother Superior , added firmly , ‘ she 'll have to come on a holiday three times a year , other wise it 's no go . ’
11 Many of the pressures were already latent and would have come to the surface irrespective of the organizational structure .
12 Our spies tell us Hewlett-Packard and DEC would have come to the Unix International meeting if they were n't so afraid to being found out .
13 Well , if we had been a little more realistic , we would have included another item in the expenditure side — wasted time , which some of you may have included under the heading private study !
14 How they could have done with a win this afternoon .
15 A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation .
16 The old Gina , the one who had guarded her own virginity as if it had been her sole worth , would have awakened from the experience ashamed and remorseful .
17 We need not have bothered with the cheese proper .
18 It was then his hand brushed against her skirt , and two fingers would have slid into the pocket unnoticed if Sarah had n't been watching .
19 Present-day stateless societies are not necessarily representative of all , or even most , of the earliest human communities , many of which may have had from the beginning some differentiation of political functions based upon age or gender ; and in any event enquiry into such questions remains largely speculative .
20 The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned .
21 Other problems obscure the issue ; whoever killed Alexander must surely have got to the ferry first , crossed the Firth of Forth , knew the route the King was to take , carried out their plan and got away , hoping the King 's companions would not discover this .
22 All this must have raised in the laity ambivalent feelings .
23 You would have to fly around the world four hundred million times to add one second to your life ; but your life would be reduced by more than that by all those airline meals .
24 Although he was obviously placed carefully on to the sofa , the freshly pomaded hair is awry and could have benefited from a comb prior to being photographed .
25 The horrifying thing about , for instance , Robert Nichols 's review in the Observer for 11 January 1920 — ‘ Mr Pound , indeed , serves his lobster â l'Américaine ’ — is that it could perfectly well have appeared in the Observer last Sunday .
26 Erm I 'm simply saying that there is a possibility of a an inner relief road taking some of the traffic , an inner northern relief road , taking some of the traffic that might otherwise have remained on the A sixty one .
27 It was n't the sort of thing he would have put on the wall next to his bed but it was a lot more acceptable than Mr Pilkington in a black cowl .
28 That training ( and the service that should have started with the Class 317 units at the beginning of the 1982 timetable ) was stopped by an industrial dispute about bonus payments for driver-only operation .
29 One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago .
30 Lord Woodleigh gave him a look that would have quelled in an instant any insolent groom or keeper .
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