Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 2 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 3 | Whoever was in the flat must have heard the muffled sound of the closing door and was going through into the bedroom to have a look out of the window . |
| 4 | The issues appeared in different proportions at Rome and at Canterbury , but no one was inclined to minimize the importance of the Canterbury claim — and rightly , for the concession of a primacy such as Lanfranc and Anselm desired would have altered the future government of the medieval Church more than any concessions in the matter of investitures . |
| 5 | Mike Brearley , the subsequent England captain and a Cambridge graduate with a distinctly academic turn of mind , was revealing in his reasons for turning down the offer , which would have overturned the historical structure of international cricket : ‘ Money apart , Kerry Packer is not my style . |
| 6 | Only the French could have developed the coordinated look of Rodier Hommes . |
| 7 | Only the French could have developed the coordinated look of Rodier Hommes . |
| 8 | At $60 , anyone who has held his shares will have received the full benefit of the new information whether it is disclosed to him or not . |
| 9 | At this stage it will be feeding by itself , but bear in mind that it will not have completed the necessary course of inoculations . |
| 10 | The Pioneers will by now have completed the first leg of their journey to Cyprus . |
| 11 | She must indeed have plumbed the general sense of Jaq 's message … |
| 12 | Even if the lobbyist is not entirely successful in putting across his point of view , he may have limited the potential damage of the new legislation . |
| 13 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 14 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 15 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 16 | Vincent would have applauded the religious tenor of Lawrence 's Foreword to Sons and Lovers , and especially this : ‘ So there is the Father — which should be called the Mother … ’ |
| 17 | To anyone who was watching we must have looked the very picture of youthful preoccupation and parental concern . |
| 18 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 19 | The young priest must have caught the new note of authority in his voice . |
| 20 | The deep economic depression , particularly of the late 1920s and the early 1930s , may well have discouraged the continued raising of large families and encouraged the greater use of birth-control techniques . |
| 21 | More importantly , however , the remains overlay burnt material , while the make-up levels on Site 2 contained Antonine pottery , thus demonstrating that the building(s) were part of an overall design reshaping the town centre , which might also have included the first phase of the defences . |
| 22 | Only such a leap could have spawned the dynamic activity of the Bank staffers in the field in the early and mid 1970s . |
| 23 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 24 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
| 25 | That is why , if the stock exchange had built Taurus many years ago , as promised , it could also have ensured the earlier abolition of stamp duty . |
| 26 | Not that it would have done the slightest bit of good . |
| 27 | However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) . |
| 28 | Such is 53 : The reader will have noticed the complete absence of the first person , as the Poet , fully caught up in his task , existed merely as vehicle for the other 's praise . |
| 29 | The will also certainly have noticed the virtual exclusion of non-American business . |
| 30 | You will have noticed the recurrent use of the word ‘ slowly ’ by now — this is the whole secret of your early departures from the static hover condition . |