Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given a tree not in the base , determining which sequence of transformations may have been applied to generate this tree . |
| 2 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
| 3 | The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy . |
| 4 | Indeed , the statute of 1324 coincided with an earlier seizure of alien priories by Edward II and may itself have been intended to palliate that action . |
| 5 | The Gazza of old would have been tempted to flick that ball in the air and juggle away an outstanding chance for his team . |
| 6 | But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone . |
| 7 | But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone . |
| 8 | Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose . |
| 9 | While she may have been forced to permit some seepage of sovereignty to imperial institutions on some issues , she was never prepared to give ground on things that really mattered as , in the same way , Germany is not prepared to give ground on monetary union . |
| 10 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |
| 11 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 12 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 13 | The budget could have been used to get this region and the country generally out of recession . |
| 14 | The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix . |
| 15 | Mergers are usually disturbing to employees and managers alike , and a merger of nearly 600 undertakings might have been expected to create more pain than most . |
| 16 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 17 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 18 | Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable . |
| 19 | Grinols defines the dividend in production as " the profits of British post entry production less the profits which would have been earned using 1972 membership production levels . " |
| 20 | Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited . |