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 | For a complete account we should perhaps have to add further criteria . |
| 3 | ‘ We should perhaps have started this indoors , but my mother is there . |
| 4 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 5 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 6 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 7 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 8 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 9 | The rescue service , which describes its staff as the ‘ new knights of the road , ’ boasts women alone should only have to wait 20 minutes . |
| 10 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 12 | You 'd only have to take two boards up out of the lot . |
| 13 | It seemed to Marie that people would only have to take one look at her to see that she did n't belong in these surroundings . |
| 14 | No , well you 'd only have to , you 'd only have to take one board up maybe two . |
| 15 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 16 | Their fear was that taxes would not only have to remain high but might well have to increase . |
| 17 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 18 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ellwood reasoned that the women would only have felt curious if Annie was driving on the mirror : clearly , she was n't . |
| 21 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 22 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll only have to stay one night . ’ |
| 24 | I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance . |
| 25 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I am receiving treatment at the Lister Hospital in London and any women who would be willing to donate eggs would only have to make two trips down there . |
| 28 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 29 | It would only have needed one postponement at the school 's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol 's big opportunity ! |
| 30 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |