Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each contract involving 1,000 rights would have cost 250 ; if the investor purchased 4 such contracts the total cost would have been 1,000 . |
| 2 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 3 | Though no official cost has been put on the deep-water well which led to the West of Shetland find , industry sources suggest the total outlay may have been less than £10 million . |
| 4 | ‘ The normal courtesy would have been to phone ahead for an appointment . ’ |
| 5 | John was going to make his comforting fiction — that she had not really saved the firm , merely secured it a little earlier than the normal contracts would have saved it anyway — he was going to make it true , by ( in effect ) doctoring the books . |
| 6 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 7 | Is it not true — as my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) pointed out — that as much public money goes to one CTC , to which parents who have not gone through the normal process will have access , as to all the other schools in the area , and that it goes there at the same rate ? |
| 8 | Their professed need for a load valley in summer to permit overhaul could not be reconciled with the common observation that their capacity problems were not at their worst then ; it could not both be true that the differential charge would have no effect and that it would have so large an effect in cutting consumption the Boards would make losses . |
| 9 | Gaitskell , Citrine , Self and Wilkinson had all seen earlier that , to be effective , the differential charge would have to be large : perhaps 1¼d . |
| 10 | ‘ The hooded crows would have had your food . ’ |
| 11 | It accompanied this request with a paper entitled ‘ Future Management of AFE and distribution of the 1982/83 AFE pool ’ , outlining the criteria which the short-term machinery would have to meet and stressing that the paper had been prepared ‘ purely as a basis for further discussion between the Department and the local authorities ’ . |
| 12 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 13 | The liquid inside might have been water . |
| 14 | In similar circumstances in previous elections the dissatisfied Tories would have given the Liberals and the Social Democrats the benefit of their protest . |
| 15 | From the maturation angle , reservoirs within the Devonian section in the hanging wall could have preserved gas generated in older rocks during the Palaeozoic , though it would stand a poor chance of avoiding dispersal during either the Late Caledonian or Variscan orogenies . |
| 16 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 17 | However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review . |
| 18 | In any weather conditions , the visitor must wonder how any simple man scraping a living in such a lonely and inhospitable place in the 17th century could have been judged to be a threat to the nation . |
| 19 | It was an indication of the great difficulty the European idea would have in achieving concerted action in even a single economic sector , and suggested that the recently established and broader European Economic Community of 1957 would not find it easy to secure its broad objectives of common policies and a common market . |
| 20 | That means that the Commission will not have the sole right of initiative and the European Court will have no jurisdiction . |
| 21 | But as the Community moved towards the goal of political union the European Parliament would have to give greater co-legislating powers to the Council of Ministers . |
| 22 | Under this draft , the European Parliament would have increased powers to approve the legislative measures necessary to establish the final stage of EMU , but the Commission would retain exclusive rights to initiate this legislation . |
| 23 | Undergraduate students from the European Community may have their tuition fees paid if they meet certain eligibility conditions . |
| 24 | Until that evil burden is lifted from Mr. Rushdie 's shoulders , the Government and the European Community should have nothing to do with Iran and its Government . |
| 25 | The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ . |
| 26 | However , Friends of the Earth , whilst supporting the setting up of a European Environment Agency , suggested that an inspectorate attached to the European Commission could have an investigative role in member countries . |
| 27 | The European Commission will have to review and approve or otherwise IBM Corp 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA : it has four weeks to decide whether the alliance could harm competition in Community markets ; if it has ‘ serious doubts ’ about the transaction , it will then launch a deeper , four-month probe . |
| 28 | Companies adopting the European statute would have to choose between three versions of worker participation . |
| 29 | At the same time , the European bank will have to reassure countries such as Hungary , host to the annual meeting , Czechoslovakia and Poland that they will not be overshadowed by the needs of the old Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Whilst the orgiastic dancers may have been stimulated by alcohol , it is likely that opium was used to heighten the states of meditation during long vigils and bouts of prayer , the curious seclusions which the ancients called ‘ incubation ’ . |