Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 Little wonder , in a sense , that so many children died in early infancy , or that those who survived would have built up a set of antibodies we might well envy .
2 It is clear that this kind of INSET provision could have been much more effective if the membership of each course had been carefully targeted and hence more homogeneous ; many of the teachers who attended would have been better served by a simpler , more sharply focused presentation of recommendations specifically relevant to their own current practice .
3 The man who did must have just got a kick out of it .
4 Self selection among the drug users who seroconverted may have biased our results .
5 As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place .
6 Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members .
7 However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself .
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