Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 2 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 3 | Her absence ( if it was regular and fairly lengthy ) would presumably have given a similar opportunity to her husband . |
| 4 | I entertained the hope that while one or two lazy habits may have crept in , the passage of years will have added a certain maturity to my conduct behind the wheel . |
| 5 | Certainly they were decorative and they must have added a barbaric vibrancy to the temple 's complex roof-line , but they also indicate a general dedication of the building to Poteidan . |
| 6 | She went , with a glare at Luke Denner that would have turned a lesser man to stone . |
| 7 | Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq ash-Shar " a said that the USA should first have secured a complete halt to settlement-building , and that the foreign ministers would demand that " Washington play the role of a fair mediator , unbiased towards Israel " . |
| 8 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 9 | It was because she knew that before the month was out she would have said a permanent goodbye to him that she was greedy to spend as much time with him as she could now . |
| 10 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
| 11 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 12 | ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if tomorrow I confirm a speculative theory implying that the gravitational attraction between two bodies depends on their temperature , falsifying Newton 's theory in the process , I would have made a significant contribution to scientific knowledge . |
| 14 | He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter . |
| 15 | The 5/ a week given in 1908 to those aged over seventy would have made a significant contribution to the pre-war family economy , but the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women 's Organisations and members of the Fabian Women 's Group felt that this should be weighed against the increased friction caused by an old person coming into an already overcrowded home , pointing out that elderly people 's ideas of hygiene and childrearing might not be desirable , an argument that appealed to the infant welfare movement . |
| 16 | The unanimous condemnation of marriage as a trade by the feminist movement may also have made a significant contribution to the new emphasis on marriage as a partnership . |
| 17 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 18 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 19 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 20 | We have proper birth certificates , because my mother must have told a simple lie to the registrar , a discovery about the verisimilitude of documents that worries me a lot as a historian . |
| 21 | ‘ Cologne may have had a poor start to the season , but they are typically disciplined like all German sides and will play as they are told to play by their coach . |
| 22 | Rather than view the Sancton-Baston pottery as the products of individual potters or workshops ( Myres 1969 ; 1977 ) , the fact that five sets of dies were cut to produce a minimum of nine vessels suggests that the decoration of the pottery may have had a totemic significance to individual families . |
| 23 | Now he was lenient earlier on in the half the official when he might have shown a red card to Laws . |
| 24 | Had it continued , however , the rebel university could have become a rival establishment to both Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 25 | A secure keyboard technique is essential , and all students , even those for whom piano is second instrument , should have reached a standard equivalent to Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations . |
| 26 | Admission procedures for the BMus in Musical Technology are also noted in the Admissions section : students should have reached a standard equivalent to Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations in any recognised instrument . |
| 27 | A baby must have brought a grinding halt to her career ? ’ he enquired slowly . |
| 28 | Even if the food does arrive , even if Ethiopia 's overstretched infrastructure can manage to distribute it , the drought of 1982 will have dealt a devastating blow to the country 's hopes of feeding itself . |
| 29 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 30 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |