Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could so much have changed in six months ? |
| 2 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 3 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 4 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 5 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 6 | These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November . |
| 7 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 8 | ‘ Just as long as I can spread a little happiness at whatever cost to my dignity , I will not have lived in vain . |
| 9 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 10 | It runs so near the ancient Banbury-Oxford road ( within a quarter of a mile in places ) that it can not have served as another through road . |
| 11 | Yes , it was true he need not have wanted for female companionship over the past months . |
| 12 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 13 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 14 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 15 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 16 | YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies . |
| 17 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 18 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 19 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 20 | He should not have lost with such a lead . |
| 21 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 22 | But he should not have played since 1 October , when temporary clearance from the English Basket Ball Association expired . |
| 23 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 24 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 25 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 26 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 27 | The conditions of the moral economy have been met , okay the landlords have been forced to if one accepted that was the way in which the peasants saw the world they would not have gone beyond that . |
| 28 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 29 | The neutrinos and antineutrinos , however , would not have annihilated with each other , because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly . |
| 30 | I stress ‘ of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity ’ because it is the peculiar combinatorial potency of expressions in natural language which , it seems to me , could not have emerged by any evolutionary mechanism unless the users of the system were capable of the sort of second-order intentional states involved in the Gricean mechanism . |