Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 2 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 3 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 4 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 5 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 6 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 7 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 8 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 9 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 10 | The coins were found in a fairly straight line , indicating that they may have fallen from a torn purse . |
| 11 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |
| 12 | It looks like he may have travelled under an assumed name , God knows why . ’ |
| 13 | But I would like to mention that conflicting evidence is not always the result of a social worker being inexperienced and taken in easily by appearances when he or she should obviously have checked with an independent source . |
| 14 | ‘ David Harrison was convinced that he would have won with a clear run and while it 's hard to be definite about that , he would certainly have been placed . ’ |
| 15 | That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . |
| 16 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 17 | 6d. , less than she could have expected from a modern royalty . |
| 18 | Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation . |
| 19 | The copyist who supplied it was , to judge from other manuscripts in his handwriting , almost certainly an amateur — not the kind of musician Purcell would have trusted with an important task — and was not active until 1700 at the earliest . |
| 20 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 21 | It may have looked like a good ruse to get 300 acres lovingly ploughed , but Shillingford Farm happily played host to the British Championships . |
| 22 | ‘ I was glad she accepted because otherwise I would have looked like a right banana in front of all those tourists . ’ |
| 23 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 24 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 25 | If you are still anti-bat , so be it , but at least you will have come to an informed conclusion . |
| 26 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 27 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 28 | For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum . |
| 29 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |
| 30 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |