Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 2 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 3 | Their fear was that taxes would not only have to remain high but might well have to increase . |
| 4 | Bury and Stockport once more topped the list , with third place going to Bradford , an authority where the national attention paid to the city 's politics , and the polarising of political opinion on the ground , can only have increased electoral interest . |
| 5 | Ellwood reasoned that the women would only have felt curious if Annie was driving on the mirror : clearly , she was n't . |
| 6 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 7 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |
| 8 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 9 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 10 | All new school buildings in northern China , where the weather is cold and bright , will henceforth have built-in solar energy installations . |
| 11 | Short windows do n't necessarily have to have short curtains which only really look good in small cottagy or attic windows . |
| 12 | You do n't necessarily have to have bright coloured polish on at the end . |
| 13 | Mars , by contrast , being so much further away from the Sun , is very cold : the water vapour produced by its early volcanoes would swiftly have frozen solid , leaving a thin atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide . |
| 14 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 15 | Clearly the seller does not have to remain ready and willing to deliver . |
| 16 | His comrades in arms had made their views known to him quite openly and , in any case , he could not have remained ignorant in a country so full of informers , police and intelligence services as Spain then was . |
| 17 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 18 | We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results . |
| 19 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 20 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 21 | A company doing business overseas may not have made proper allowances for the high cost of inducing people to work overseas . |
| 22 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 23 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 24 | When Birkenhead left office in 1928 , Baldwin accepted his resignation with a reluctance which was convincing because honestly expressed : ‘ We shall part , on my side at least , with a feeling of personal regret which I could not have believed possible four years ago . ’ |
| 25 | This is because Karnataka does not have to replace nuclear plants with alternative power sources , where the least environmentally damaging happens to be most expensive . |
| 26 | However , if a person does not want to remember names of minor characters in a novel , or does not have to remember arbitrary names to perform an experimental task , a representation of content from which that information is omitted — an incomplete mental model — will suffice . |
| 27 | Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient 's expense . |
| 28 | Does the Minister accept that patients , irrespective of age group , should not have to undergo prolonged suffering , being fobbed off with medication from time to time when cardiac surgery is necessary ? |
| 29 | But many people felt that the camera should not have stayed fixed on the couple as they reached climax . |
| 30 | The message of de Gaulle the politician was that national renewal did not have to succeed national disaster ; it could be achieved through a reform in the organization of the French state . |