Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | An appeal for political asylum would have been likely to get her nowhere ; Alina was n't political , and never really had been . |
| 2 | A full list of gliders which can be towed in included , and the concluding paragraph in the fully detailed glider-tugging section states , ‘ Most of the numerous accidents that have occurred during glider-towing operations could have been avoided if pilots had better known and followed these basic rules of safety ’ . |
| 3 | It may well be the case that the very concept of adjudication as applied to disputes between private individuals will have to be modified in its application to litigation involving public bodies . |
| 4 | The emission charges for each pollutant would have to be adjusted to take into account increases in the number of emission sources ( if air quality is not to deteriorate ) and it would have to be adjusted to reflect increases in general price levels . |
| 5 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 6 | For each country will have specific problems related to its own social , political and economic structure . |
| 7 | The fact that subjects answered all questions for each stimulus may have caused them to restrict their interpretation of individual tasks such that there was no overlap between tasks . |
| 8 | Though , within the limits of building activity set by the Labour government , it is unlikely that the development charge procedure seriously affected the supply of land , it is probable that the Conservative government 's plans for private building would have been jeopardised by it . |
| 9 | It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme . |
| 10 | The spread is measured in " ticks " ' with each tick equal to %; and whereas , prior to October 1986 , a typical spread for short-term bonds would have been 2-4 ticks ( the lower for the more liquid stocks , the higher for the less liquid ) it is now 1-2 ticks . |
| 11 | All customers who accept our estimates for complete rewires will have the option to purchase a security light at just £9.95 , which represents a saving of over £50 on the normal retail price . |
| 12 | By the next election , the lot of the Tottenham poor will have got worse , and the chance of alleviating it through economic growth will have receded . |
| 13 | As someone interested in trying to promote industrial regeneration and further growth in the north-east does my hon. Friend agree that the additional burdens laid on businesses in regions such as his own by the absurd idea of the imposition of a regional tier of government and the increased taxation necessary to pay for that tier would have an adverse effect on local business , would increase costs , would reduce competitiveness and would help to drive business and jobs away from his region ? |
| 14 | Obviously , the pupils would want or need a boarding education , and the reasons for that preference would have to be stated — on all this , the Report was embarrassingly vague . |
| 15 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 16 | Touching the face through that gauze would have seemed like sacrilege , so he chose the hair instead . |
| 17 | But in fact they did care , because if they had n't the traumas that afflicted Welsh rugby at about this time would have had not effect . |
| 18 | Whether or not hydrocarbon generation continued during the Mesozoic , losses from Palaeozoic reservoirs during this period could have been trapped at the post-Carboniferous unconformity , for example by the Lias shales in the Wealden area . |
| 19 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 20 | It is also possible that cultural adaptations during this phase may have selected genetic bases for behaviour in ways that ensured the development of social strategies designed to ensure that individuals fitted well into the existing social structure . |
| 21 | Any increased blood pressure from excitement such as sexual intercourse might have caused it to burst . |
| 22 | LAKES and reservoirs used for public recreation may have to be shut during peak demand in the summer as increasing pollution causes toxic algae blooms . |
| 23 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 24 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 25 | If he hears a form / gene / , is he to render this in the orthography as gon na ( which for some readers may have a peculiarly American association ) or gointuh or going to ? |
| 26 | It has been suggested that the reason for this choice may have been that the longer of the two annual intervals between successive zenith-transits of the sun in the neighbourhood of Copan ( one of the most important Maya cities ) at latitude 15 degrees north is 260 days . |
| 27 | With a register , life for this girl might have been very different . |
| 28 | The virtual machines used for this purpose will have low priority call on resources to minimise the impact on interactive work . |
| 29 | But the thousands of people who trudged to the polling stations to cast their vote for this party must have known what the terror tailpiece to the democratic process would have been . |
| 30 | ‘ I am sure anybody who had responsibility for this collection would have to consider this course of action . ’ |