Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 2 | In these circumstances I think it clear , given the diversity of immunities and of the policies underlying them , that it is not enough to ask simply whether Parliament can have intended to abolish a long-standing right of silence . |
| 3 | I could hardly have expected to hear a complete stranger making such a blatant and … and totally unwarranted assassination of my character . |
| 4 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 5 | To heat the building to a reasonable temperature would have cost so much that they would have needed to charge a substantial entrance fee ! |
| 6 | All tidy and comfortable , though she would have preferred to see a little color about the place . |
| 7 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 8 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 10 | Five minutes later I would have had to explain a naked vicar as well . |
| 11 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 12 | But Geoff Cooke and company will have had to draw a deep breath , and had need of all their courage , if they have picked him ahead of Rob Andrew as the other stand-off to Stuart Barnes . |
| 13 | If Shakespeare wrote a play with a cast of twenty-five , then he must have had to write a separate copy for each of the cast . |
| 14 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 15 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 16 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |
| 17 | Even Charlie felt things were on the up when Mrs Smelley 's smiling face appeared , to buy more potatoes for her boarding house in one morning than he would normally have hoped to sell a regular customer in a month . |
| 18 | Steven Spielberg 's dinosaurs are frightening enough … but none of the experts would have wanted to encounter a real-life sea dragon . |
| 19 | If they evolved among the snows , surely those that still live there would have learned to acquire a white covering , at least in winter , like the Arctic fox , the ptarmigan and the snowshoe hare . |
| 20 | He might as well have tried to hit a flitting moonshadow . |
| 21 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 22 | ‘ This was the time when the group should have started to become a real group , but it seemed that everybody had an opinion on how the record should sound and we ended up becoming less of a group . |
| 23 | At this time , 1786 , he must have determined to undertake a full survey of Manchester . |
| 24 | When the original pasture is grazed again , prophylactic measures should be undertaken , as enough larvae may have survived to institute a fresh cycle of infection . |
| 25 | ( If you pride yourself on being intelligent , for example , bear in mind that someone else might have chosen to have a limited intellect in this life in order to learn from the experience , perhaps because they have over-valued intelligence in the past . ) |
| 26 | It can also be used when several results have already been found but people are unable to proceed further to a generalisation ; for instance , they may have failed to spot a linear relationship or a well-known number-sequence in their results . |
| 27 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 28 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |