Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , who , a couple of decades back , would have expected to find high-quality Turkish cuisine in Chorlton-cum-Hardy ? |
| 2 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 3 | The revival of activity occasioned by the 1918 Act and its redistribution may have helped to revive local Unionist parties , but in fact the war had a less serious effect than might be expected . |
| 4 | To obtain a clear white wine from black grapes Dom Pérignon would have had to employ sophisticated pressing techniques ; it is most likely , therefore , that it was Pérignon who invented the traditional Champagne press , designed exactly for this purpose . |
| 5 | Although Roosevelt might have hoped to escape direct American involvement in any war , there is no reason to question his belief that somehow or other Germany or Japan had to be constrained , contained or defeated . |