Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 2 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 3 | She should perhaps have noted more positively that Brahms labelled this as a plain Allegro , unlike the corresponding movement of No. 3 , which he marked Allegro maestoso . |
| 4 | With enough genetic mutations at hand , the behaviour could perhaps have evolved independently in each species . |
| 5 | Doing this , ‘ he will perhaps have learned more than he can tell . ’ |
| 6 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 7 | What you have to remember if tempted to copy any ‘ late-hit ’ pose , is that the professional will move his clubhead through almost half a circle while his hands may only have moved about 18 inches from the right to left thigh , and then only because he has already got the clubhead moving fast . |
| 8 | ‘ She would only have grown more confused . |
| 9 | Nigger could only have arrived home that same day and already he seemed to be queering Yanto 's pitch . |
| 10 | Only split seconds perhaps , for the entire flight could only have lasted about a minute , yet a significant time in an emergency . |
| 11 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 12 | In either case Kasper could only have got there , like many of the top racers , on crutches . |
| 13 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 14 | Clearly this damage caused decompression of the pressurised cabin , but it should not necessarily have led automatically to separation of the horizontal tail surfaces . |
| 15 | The first living organism can not have followed far behind . |
| 16 | She knew that she would not have lived happily ever after with Peter Datchett . |
| 17 | Bodies massive enough to excavate maria have been few in number though such bodies need not have exceeded about 100 km in diameter . |
| 18 | This may be due to poor analysis — the analyst may not have understood fully the present system or the users ’ requirements . |
| 19 | She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs . |
| 20 | In many ways the first two UDCs could not have possessed more diverse characteristics nor could they have differed more greatly in their potential to transform their respective areas from derelict urban landscapes to localities resonant with dynamic private sector activity . |
| 21 | Ellsworth Kelly first saw Paris in 1944 at the age of twenty-one after the Normandy landing ; the young marine can not have imagined then how important that city was to be to his artistic career . |
| 22 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 23 | Further , the authorities in a number of nuclear states have made unilateral statements of one kind or another which indicate that their nuclear weapons may not have escaped entirely from laws-of-war restraints . |
| 24 | She who loved the fields and trees and the wideness of the North Riding could not have endured so claustrophobic an existence . |
| 25 | Clerk of the Course Bob Davies said : ‘ We could not have raced today . ’ |
| 26 | The early wings may not have served initially for flight . |
| 27 | He could not have stayed away for long because in June of that year he was captured by the Dragoons in Knockdow House in Carrick and confined on the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth to await trial . |
| 28 | Yet this distinction is a relatively recent one : Isaac Newton , for example , would not have distinguished so clearly between physics and philosophy . |
| 29 | which the government would then have spent on the industrial sector so agriculture would not have moved forward . |
| 30 | However , once you hand over your work to the framer , you can not always guarantee that the design will not have moved slightly , so on the whole it is probably best to use a cold-seal film at home , unless the item is extremely important and you want to achieve as professional a finish as possible . |