Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should perhaps have started this indoors , but my mother is there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Therefore , if were incorrectly derived from an acoustic waveform that in fact corresponded to an intended production of thanks for sending me your letter , the syntactic/semantic component would not only have to reject all the improbable competitors such as thanks force ending knee your letter , but also to identify that the word knee has been incorrectly derived instead of me . |
| 12 | The SRU committee would obviously have to discuss such a suggestion . ’ |
| 13 | This is going to be a year when we will all have to go that extra mile for children . |
| 14 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 15 | You do not necessarily have to decide that . |
| 16 | The Banking Department will thus have to acquire more notes from the Issue Department , which will simply print more in exchange for extra government or other securities supplied by the Banking Department . |
| 17 | You should not normally have to pay more than your rates bill plus £52 . |
| 18 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 19 | Having read earlier about the ‘ rebound hunger ’ factor involved in diets consisting of large quantities of refined carbohydrate foods , you will already have gained some clue to the role that dietary fibre can play in the prevention and control of adult-onset diabetes , particularly common among overweight people . |
| 20 | Now at the back of the re , rest of that packet , erm , in front of the vinyl cardboard but you may already have extracted this , you 'll find two sets of pre-printed labels . |
| 21 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 22 | Any such move makes probable the sudden exposure to new agents ( or at least new strains ) to which children born in the area , even if their parents had moved in , would already have developed some immunity . |
| 23 | One way of finding applicants of a suitable calibre is to use an agency which specializes in the type of employee you are looking for , and which , if it is a good agency , will already have done some preliminary sorting to weed out those who are entirely unsuitable . |
| 24 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 25 | Of course , many readers will already have studied some aspects of these other disciplines as well as accounting and finance . |
| 26 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 27 | The visitor might already have known this ; Connie Franks ' better results are probably more the consequence of giving the right amount at the right time , the sign of greater attention to a plant 's needs which marks the best gardeners . |
| 28 | You will already have considered most of the factors under ‘ operational implications ’ , but do n't forget that you need to allow for the tea , coffee and biscuits that the second conference will be consuming in substantial quantities . |
| 29 | Sexual dysfunction or what we loosely term " deviation " may have consequences beyond the man or Woman subject to them ; and when they are encountered by the social worker they probably will already have had such consequences . |
| 30 | The stockmarket may already have discounted much of this good news , however . |