Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 2 | Depending on the particular system used , patients would only be permitted to seek treatment from ‘ approved ’ or ‘ contracted ’ suppliers or would have to get prior agreement from their home authority to seek treatment elsewhere . |
| 3 | As an owner you generally know these symptoms or will have taken veterinary advice . |
| 4 | Contingents organised and supplied by churches formed a significant part of Carolingian armies ( a proportion that may have grown larger during the ninth century ) , complementing the king 's own military household and the troops led by lay nobles . |
| 5 | One of the reasons behind this seemingly illogical situation in such an over-populated area is that councils are not legally allowed to take into account small sites ( aptly termed ‘ wind-full ’ sites ) that may have become derelict or vacant which actually provide a large amount of free land . |
| 6 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 7 | Which mortgage can not be held responsible for any out date of information that may have occurred due to changes taking place after the editorial deadline . |
| 8 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 9 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 10 | Fran had to hand it to Luke : he had handled the story with a panache that must have squashed any rumours stone-dead . |
| 11 | But I ca n't help drooling at thoughts of the enormous quantities of top-quality drooling of top-quality jewellery and purses bulging with sovereigns that must have slipped unnoticed to the ground while all of those ‘ gaieties ’ were taking place . |
| 12 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
| 13 | Clearly , if LMS could bring real benefits for teachers it would also bring benefits to pupils too : LMS could enable curriculum development that might have gone unfunded by the LEA . |
| 14 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 15 | cut is the branch that might have grown full strait And burned is Apollo 's laurel bough ! |
| 16 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 17 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 18 | The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start . |
| 19 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 20 | But Mr Weston believes there 's nothing that could have prevented this accident . |
| 21 | This was obviously an issue that could have affected other EPHs , and , after consultation with the OIC and the responsible officers at the department headquarters , it was agreed to pursue the development of a user requirement that would reflect the needs of this establishment and others within the local authority as a whole . |
| 22 | ‘ To see if there were any sharp edges or protrusions that could have caused such a head wound ? ’ |
| 23 | It followed the discovery of a package that could have caused serious injury , writes Audrey Gillan . |
| 24 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 25 | I 'd obtained the briefings and the weather was good , so there was only one thing that could have gone wrong . |
| 26 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 27 | But when his report admits that everything that could have gone wrong on that fateful day actually did , it would surely be wrong to single out any individual as a scapegoat , amid such an horrendous combination of factors . |
| 28 | Robertson said : ‘ It was one of these matches that could have gone either way , but it 's very disappointing to lose all three sets on a 7-6 scoreline . ’ |
| 29 | The analysts were unable to identify any software available at that time that could have supported this volume and variety of files without considerable development . |
| 30 | These little flights of fancy , embellishments of Cairns-Smith 's own concern only one of several kinds of mineral ‘ life cycle ’ that could have started cumulative selection along its momentous road . |