Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that this " mood " could only have come to dominate the study of English by deflecting the major challenges to its status as a " real discipline " . |
| 2 | Curiously though , in Cyprus finding water is the paramount geological task : the growth of agriculture and hotel development added together have helped to drain the aquifers . |
| 3 | NEC Corp has already has contracted to make the PICA chip set for Acer , and plans to second-source the set to systems developers worldwide . |
| 4 | Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension . |
| 5 | The point is , of course , that B might not have intended to communicate the assumption expressed by [ 15c ] . |
| 6 | In the words of , General Manager of the Entertainments Section , without management and dedication the would not have survived to become the major force in British theatre that it is today . |
| 7 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 8 | But 100 years ago , I am sure than many an older mechanical engineer would not have cared to contemplate the day when robots would be able to manufacture engine components to much higher tolerances than could be achieved then . |
| 9 | In the light of what we in our omniscience now know of Falkenhayn 's intentions , and of the hideous tragedy that was to ensue at Verdun , we may say that France should not have decided to hold the city at all costs . |
| 10 | That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies . |
| 11 | At last he turned to her and he could not have failed to see the anguish in her eyes . |
| 12 | Coleridge himself can not have failed to make the calculation that of four marriageable Fricker sisters , one was married to Robert Lovell , and another all but engaged to Southey . |
| 13 | ‘ Had I been in a civilian occupation , ’ he wrote , ‘ I should not have hesitated to pay the full amount . ’ |
| 14 | So far from killing himself over Wolfgang , he would not have hesitated to end the liaison if it interfered with his plans . ’ |
| 15 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
| 16 | He would not have dared to take the decision alone to order his troops to open fire on the ANC marchers massing on his borders . |
| 17 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 18 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 19 | The vendor or his agent may already have decided to sell the land by auction , tender or highest offer . |
| 20 | Broad tracts of woodland and common wastes along the ridge attracted squatters irresistibly , and with the whole Weald teeming with people many obscure forest dwellers might easily have contrived to elude the taxman altogether . |
| 21 | Unless the man is a total stranger — and sometimes even then , too — a woman may blame herself for somehow having failed to prevent the attack . |
| 22 | He conquered the still-surviving British kingdom of Elmet ( HB ch. 63 ) and extended over the men of Lindsey ( among whom the missionary Paulinus baptized at Lincoln and Littleborough ( HE II , 16 ) ) , a lordship which must soon have come to embrace the Mercians north of the Trent and , no doubt by slower degrees , those south of it . |
| 23 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 24 | Why , though , could these supposed championship contenders not have tried to emulate the fine passing that had sprinkled the previous weekend 's Merseyside joust ? |
| 25 | We are delighted to report that Lady More has agreed to become the first president of the Society and has given us a most generous donation in memory of her husband . |
| 26 | Collectors can hardly have failed to notice the appearances back in March not only of Volume 1 of our survey of recommended mid- and budget priced recordings , but also a more selective ‘ Top 100 ’ in two other publications . |
| 27 | Anyone involved with PCs can hardly have failed to notice the dramatic price reductions in PCs over the last year . |
| 28 | Readers of the British press can hardly have failed to notice the headlines announcing ‘ How the Universe Began ’ , ‘ the Holy Grail of Cosmology ’ and the ‘ Discovery of All Time ’ . |
| 29 | John himself would hardly have deigned to enter the parish church with a child of his , and may have sent his wife instead : ‘ If you want her baptised , dear , you go and do it … |
| 30 | Travellers might gradually have helped to make the marker more obvious . |