Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you had kept your mouth shut , Friar , we might perhaps have gained the truth .
2 As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait .
3 ‘ We should perhaps have asked the Trees the best path to take , ’ said Floy , presently .
4 She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke .
5 We never tried to see one another 's faces : that would perhaps have spoiled the purity of the experience .
6 It was a great nature , checked by some hunger of the soul , which ( this is the source of all beautiful desire ) would perhaps have destroyed the soul , had it been satisfied .
7 This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise .
8 If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing .
9 Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them .
10 Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning !
11 The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself .
12 The ceremonies and festivities attending the coronation of French kings at Reims did much to enhance the popularity and reputation of the wines of Champagne — though they can not entirely have pleased the populace of Reims , who had to meet the expense of such occasions .
13 Nevertheless , Richard Baxter had to move away from Acton , otherwise his persecutors would merely have to correct the warrant and re-arrest him .
14 ‘ The great and beautiful Dane Jacobsen would merely have to cock a finger and the object of his desires would surely come running . ’
15 Policy must of course be converted into practice ; in both these schools overall spending policy and staffing priorities were significant expressions of commitment by the heads , and this can only have strengthened the resolve of those members of staff who served on the library committees and immersed themselves in the day-to-day business of winning a place in the project .
16 This will ease traffic flow and communications since passengers will only have to give the name of person they wish to see , and the taxi driver will not only immediately know the destination , and that of his cousins and his workmates .
17 You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place .
18 Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’
19 ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy .
20 I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype .
21 Arguably if you need more power later on you should only have to replace the chip , not the whole machine .
22 He could only have satisfied the expectations Labour has raised in Scotland and Wales by putting Labour 's ability to win future British elections at risk .
23 Perhaps one day computers will be big enough and numerical analysts clever enough so that the engineer will only have to pose the problem , but not yet , and not , I think , for some time to come .
24 But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling .
25 In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others .
26 Differences occurred as to means , but examination of the electoral manifestos throughout the 1960s and 1970s shows a reluctance to politicize issues which , given the intractable nature of crime and the limited efficacy of measures to counter it , would only have had the effect of exciting popular expectations beyond the capacity of any government to fulfil .
27 ‘ Of course , ’ the Doctor had said , and the memory of his voice was so real that she almost heard the words in her ears , ‘ if anyone wanted to infiltrate the TARDIS with any kind of intelligence , from a virus to an entire computer , they 'd only have to plug a cable into the socket under the console .
28 For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ .
29 If a form E111 had been obtained from Department of Health and Social Security , prior to departure , then the claimant should not have to pay the bill or would only have to pay a proportion of the bill at the hospital/clinic , where the treatment was received .
30 The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire .
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