Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 2 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 3 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even mankind might have developed from a different species . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | The coins were found in a fairly straight line , indicating that they may have fallen from a torn purse . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 6d. , less than she could have expected from a modern royalty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may have looked like a good ruse to get 300 acres lovingly ploughed , but Shillingford Farm happily played host to the British Championships . |
| 17 | ‘ I was glad she accepted because otherwise I would have looked like a right banana in front of all those tourists . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press . |
| 24 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 25 | It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder . |
| 26 | And I ca n't remember — I think Michael must have come after A Lovely War , or maybe contemporary with it , I 'm not sure . |
| 27 | The gang would have come in a high-powered motor launch , not in an ordinary punt , hired from the boat-yard half a mile upstream . |
| 28 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 29 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
| 30 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |