Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 While the institution I visited may not have been entirely ‘ typical ’ — indeed , was in a state with a relatively good record on prisons — the above observations highlight some of the difficult issues facing penal reformers in India .
2 No industry that I know would ever have publicly exposed such a failure and their frankness in so doing should do nothing but increase public confidence in the honesty and integrity of those concerned and also in their total commitment to the safe and efficient operation of the station .
3 Any job I took would also have to be fitted around me travelling to and from Harwich .
4 The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given .
5 A major subject area with which NAB will certainly have to get fully to grips is initial teacher training , and it has recently announced its intention of examining this area in time to make recommendations for 1984–5 .
6 The case , brief and obscure though it is , might well have provided a basis upon which judges could later have built to develop a principle that money demanded ultra vires by a public authority was prima facie recoverable .
7 The plain fact is that even in a deposit based account , unless you 're a non-tax payer , any interest you make will already have had tax deducted and you may find your money is probably doing no more than keeping pace with inflation .
8 Ask for a copy of the original information so that any spokesman you provide will not have it sprung upon him .
9 As the novel amply shows , those who want ca n't have and — what only makes it harder to bear — those who have do n't want .
10 I mean it 's enough that he pays lipservice to it now which you know would n't have even been recognised .
11 So d' you reckon wo n't have any ?
12 Last week a government report said that if the A T F had arrested Koresh in town , all the mayhem that followed need never of happened and those who died might still have been alive .
13 The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober .
14 Right , Microfit holds this in this regard and every regression that you estimate will always have a table of diagnostic test statistics after it , right , so although we are interested in the parameter values of our estira estimated right , in order to have any confidence in those parameter values you must ensure that we have n't violated any of the assumptions
15 The person who dies must normally have been resident in the United Kingdom , and the funeral has to take place in the UK .
16 The objection is that much of what we know could not have been learnt on the basis of experience .
17 The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five .
18 After the judgment , Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said : ‘ We did not want to cause additional stress to Mr Hale but the evidence we had would not have supported a settlement of the size of the eventual award . ’
19 If those shells had been preserved then the sand and shingle in which they lay could not have been eroded by the sun and wind .
20 The flapping of their wings and the strange cries they make would indeed have been eerie for those who Mew nothing of bird migration .
21 The investigators found no evidence that the Maya returned to the San Antonio locality to farm during Classic times , which , they suggest would probably have been impractical because of increased coastal flooding .
22 The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available .
23 They work that hard it 's they devoted should n't have to fight over ruddy rates and
24 Others suggested that their schools had an improved and more balanced curriculum , as a result of much more careful planning and prioritising , something which they felt could not have been achieved without devolution .
25 If the censor ever allowed any of the story to appear in the newspapers , there would be tales of hot pursuit and near interception — the hot pursuit line giving the l.O.s particular pleasure as the fighters mentioned were Defiants , which everybody knew could not have caught a cold .
26 This motion also creates an opportunity for the union , our union , the members ' union , to encourage young members , members and branch activists to take on the role of branch administration officers within the regions we represent here today and gain experience in an area of trade union work that they thought might never have , have existed .
27 But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell .
28 As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it .
29 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt .
30 But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone .
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