Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Cobbett , the nineteenth-century essayist , perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural . |
| 2 | October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average … and it 's not half way through the month yet . |
| 3 | Doing this , ‘ he will perhaps have learned more than he can tell . ’ |
| 4 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 5 | She felt depressed , suspecting that her quip about rot setting in had held more than a few grains of truth . |
| 6 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 7 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 8 | Like Cadbury 's chocolate , the recipe and packaging of the Mills and Boon volume may not have altered much since its inception , but the methods of marketing and distribution have changed dramatically since the early days of the twopenny library . |
| 9 | Oblivious should not have tacked here since he loses out to Smart . |
| 10 | But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer . |
| 11 | The following fall into this category : ( i ) step-parents ; ( ii ) anyone with whom the child has lived for a period of three years within the last five ; the relevant period of three years need not be continuous but must not have ended more than three months before the application is made ; ( iii ) where the child is in care , anyone who has the consent of the local authority ; ( iv ) where the child is not in care , anyone who has the consent of each person with parental responsibility for the child . |
| 12 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 13 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 14 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 15 | And anyhow , Cara would probably not have lasted more than two minutes in her job in the journalistic field had she not grown a few hard edges . |
| 16 | The mile-deep canyon itself can not have started more than 10 million years ago , so here too there must have been some very rapid erosion at some time . |
| 17 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 18 | Her eyes could not have bulged further if Werewolf had told her he only wanted her for her mind . |
| 19 | It contained the massive diversity of skills , of the workers in metal , wood , textiles and ceramics without whose inherited ‘ mysteries ’ and superb ingenuity with primitive tools the inventions of the Industrial Revolution could scarcely have got further than the drawing board . |
| 20 | When the article was produced , he already had had more than 40 years service with the Scottish Amicable . |
| 21 | Genesis meanwhile have netted more than £200 million with mainstream pop songs and sponsorship from major corporations . |
| 22 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 23 | If none of cc " or cc " or … existed , then if e happened , cc would still have existed even if any change x had occurred consistent with e and cc . |
| 24 | That is to say , roughly , that if the effect occurred , and no other causal circumstance for it but one existed , that one would still have existed even if most other things had been different . |
| 25 | We could hardly have achieved less than the Community 's observers . |
| 26 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 27 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 28 | As is well known , he wrote in the ‘ Foreword ’ to the second edition : ‘ I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations , and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence . ’ |
| 29 | To his credit , he had never engineered such postings and , in the early part of 1944 , he would rather have gone anywhere than remain in close proximity to Liza Tremayne . |
| 30 | Many a teenager has been drawn into behaviour he would rather have avoided simply because he finds himself unable to stand up to his peers or to be the one who is ‘ different ’ . |