Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 2 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 3 | Even the much-vaunted " Charity School Movement " of the early decades seems only to have helped stop a poor level becoming worse . |
| 4 | You only had to wave to get a reaction . |
| 5 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 6 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 7 | Even if I had had pencil and paper on me , I would not have cared to leave a note where someone else might see it first . |
| 8 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 9 | Crucifixion was a penalty reserved for transgressions against Roman law , and Rome would not have bothered to crucify a man preaching a purely spiritual message , or a message of peace . |
| 10 | Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ? |
| 11 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 12 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |
| 13 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 14 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 15 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 16 | Even Charlie felt things were on the up when Mrs Smelley 's smiling face appeared , to buy more potatoes for her boarding house in one morning than he would normally have hoped to sell a regular customer in a month . |
| 17 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 18 | I could hardly have expected to hear a complete stranger making such a blatant and … and totally unwarranted assassination of my character . |
| 19 | Maria shook her head angrily , aware of the futility of trying to explain the dilemma she had faced all those years ago to a man whose self-centredness precluded his ever having had to make a choice between his own interests and someone else 's . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 22 | This was the crunch match they really had to win to stand a chance of staying up . |
| 23 | In his only digression from prepared remarks , Francisco Rodriguez said : ‘ The government today has had to control a new attempt at subversion frustrated by the will of our people and of our armed forces to wage struggle . ’ |
| 24 | He might as well have tried to hit a flitting moonshadow . |
| 25 | The boots looked very much too big , but she appreciated that he would n't have liked to lend a pair of Laura 's . |
| 26 | He did n't have to get to know a new city like the boys from the country did . |
| 27 | She was no Harriet-Meredith would n't have minded betting a few men bought her champagne . |
| 28 | and he goes well that 's a million to one chance that that would , and Des Lyneham goes I would n't have minded having a little flutter on that . |
| 29 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 30 | I only said that to annoy her as Fenella was leaning over the staircase banister to fix some tinsel with double-sided tape and one more inch and she need n't have bothered wearing a skirt at all . |