Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 No one before or since has published so much from so many sites in quantity and variety .
2 British invisible foreign earnings from financial services were the largest in the world and for long had made up any deficit on visible trade .
3 It is the opportunity to reconsider two of the taken-for-granted assumptions that hitherto have shaped so much of our curriculum planning .
4 The dinosaurs alone have commanded as much popular attention as the rest of the fossil animal kingdom combined .
5 Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes .
6 I should not have said so much .
7 They believe they would not have achieved so much had they tried to score points by claiming victory every time an amendment was made or a change was accepted .
8 He could not have done so much in so brief a time .
9 She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure .
10 For example , some governments would probably not have spent as much on telecommunications as they have done without the stimulus of a foreign-dominated export sector that produces hard-currency earnings , and the expectation that such facilities , however expensive , would attract even more companies .
11 Indeed , we have good grounds for believing that the information that we have been given is accurate : I know that my Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North would not have read out that list without a solid belief that the property speculators were busy .
12 Teesdale District councillor Phil Hughes , who also represents Bowes parish council on the accident prevention panel , said : ‘ The people doing the roadworks have taken adequate measures and could not have put up any more ‘ no overtaking ’ signs or 50mph speed limit signs .
13 I could not have sat there all night .
14 It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected .
15 This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous .
16 Many elderly people will not have had that many .
17 In the country it was the custom for the estate workers or tenants to act as both coffin- and pall-bearers , this was a necessity as the local builder often doubled up as undertaker and would not have had so many men at his command as the full-time town undertaker .
18 ( So Lucie could not have changed so much . )
19 In Howell v. Coupland ( 1876 C.A ) , the seller agreed to sell 200 tons of the potato crop on a specific piece of land , which would normally have produced easily that amount .
20 The industrial economies ' share of world output may already have dropped below half .
21 With a little more nerve and experience Manchester-based Swail might easily have mopped up all four frames
22 She felt suddenly , hopelessly guilty for not having found out all about Mrs Denham before arriving .
23 Fortunately , after a visit to hospital he was found not to have picked up any poison .
24 She did not suppose there would ever be another such moment to hope for , yet few could ever have had so much .
25 Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty .
26 He could hardly have set about this more cack-handedly , he thought : he was asking a respectable psychic to supply him with blackmail material .
27 It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’
28 What ever had brought about this strange union ?
29 FA yesterday and it looks like me getting tickets from them is the same chance like the famous snowball in hell — i might settle for a new video player instead — in fact i still have got almost all of WC'90 on video — pictures from — all — games — and complete games from the 1/8 finals and onwards — including the England-Kamerun game which is quite a favorite .
30 This hypothetical person ( in this case , female ) also has done very little sport or exercise for years .
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