Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 2 | Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy-one , two months after the collapse of the Commune. erm His father was a well-known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker . |
| 3 | You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded . |
| 4 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 5 | For however inaccurate the figures are , their inaccuracies can not have increased sufficiently to explain the sharply deteriorating trend of the balance of payments over the last few years . |
| 6 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 7 | Allen could not have done more to justify his £275,000 fee . |
| 8 | BT , which bought its stake in McCaw in June for $1.3bn , said that it would not have to invest further to support the current McCaw bids . |
| 9 | Chelsea are not a particularly good team and they did not have to play well to win this often tedious match . |
| 10 | Finally , doctors planning to become fundholders may not have worked assiduously to control prescribing in the knowledge that their budgets will be based on historical costs . |
| 11 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 12 | In my father 's day they would not have dared even to think like that ! |
| 13 | ‘ Even if he had desired it , he could scarcely have done more to ensure that the Khans would support Nogai 's will . ’ |
| 14 | But Meredith noticed that the movement of the group backwards had served further to isolate her adversary with the placard and the beard . |
| 15 | I had already explained to Maxine that discovering the reason for the phobia would not in itself be a cure , and that we would still have to work together to overcome it . |
| 16 | The billeting troubles seemed very minor compared to my happiness , but Wendy and I still had to find somewhere to live . |
| 17 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 18 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 19 | Tall and powerful , he is naturally an attacking batsman who loves to play his shots , and his Test average has no doubt suffered from having often had to play defensively to shore up the innings . |
| 20 | Commentators said Mr Egon Krenz , the new party leader and head of state , and the politburo would now have to act swiftly to call free elections as the only way out of the crisis . |
| 21 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 22 | You do n't have to go anywhere to study . |
| 23 | They are so well paid they do n't have to go abroad to make a good living . |
| 24 | ‘ Bart 's could n't have tried harder to make this a wonderful day , ’ said Paul . |
| 25 | ‘ Bart 's could n't have tried harder to make this a wonderful day , ’ said Paul . |
| 26 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 27 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 28 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 29 | Smaller and more volatile businesses do not have this luxury and often find themselves unable to attract the best people , and therefore have to go outside to recruit for senior management . |