Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could only have believed that tanks had eternal lives . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ Experience elsewhere has shown that people with head injuries need a concentrated level of service in the early stages . |
| 3 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 4 | And as for yourself , you too should try talking to a friend or relative whom you trust — the chances are that they may already have realised that things are going badly . |
| 5 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ said the Company Manager , ‘ you may already have heard that Miss Decker was taken ill at the end of the first act . |
| 6 | The name meant virtually nothing to him , and a casual observer might easily have suspected that Manville had picked it out completely at random . |
| 7 | The best part of Nineteen Eighty-Four , he told Orwell in his letter of July 1949 , announcing his visit , was ‘ the delicious conversation in the pub when Winston tries to pump the old man for memories of pre-revolutionary days ’ , and one might easily have guessed that Waugh would think that episode the best . |
| 8 | — the Almanack , let alone cricket followers at large , could scarcely have guessed that Surridge would steer the county to four more Championships in a row before handing over to Peter May ( who kept the Championship pennant at The Oval for two further years ) . |
| 9 | Even rented accommodation has been taken up almost exclusively by incomers : company allowances and incomers ' higher salaries generally have meant that rents have increased and that incomers tend to be given preference as tenants . |
| 10 | It 's simple — you just have to remember that Cray Research makes computers and Cray Computer does research … |
| 11 | It 's simple — you just have to remember that Cray Research makes computers and Cray Computer does research … |
| 12 | Erm so we just have to accept that tourists do n't dress in those sort of clothes . |
| 13 | Who would ever have believed that Lucille , Vicomtesse de Seleglise and widow of Colonel Xavier Castineau , would be mother to a half-English bastard ? |
| 14 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 15 | Wodehouse translated into Italian ; and not even someone as ignorant as I was could possibly have believed that Wodehouse 's England was the England I would find . |
| 16 | The remoteness of the county must always have meant that kings remained particularly dependent on local good will . |
| 17 | The remoteness of the county must always have meant that kings remained particularly dependent on local good will . |
| 18 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 19 | It would also have ensured that people are dealt with in a consistent way and that the interests of the public were always taken into account when these important decisions are made . |
| 20 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 21 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 22 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 23 | They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other . |
| 24 | Work so far has demonstrated that reactions with the rock are fast relative to the rate of groundwater movement , so that the movement of chemical components in the system is best simulated by assuming equilibrium : the rate of chemical reactions can be ignored . |
| 25 | He may really have believed that Poles were running the Hungarian rebellion and could carry disaffection north of the Carpathians . |
| 26 | The Maronites now had to acknowledge that Lebanon possessed what would be described , exactly 40 years later , as an ‘ Arab identity ’ . |
| 27 | They have looked at a clear historical development , distinct traditions and geographical origins in determining this question , and so far have confirmed that Sikhs , Jews , and Gypsies , but not Rastafarians , are ethnic groups . |
| 28 | All Eurotunnel 's traffic and revenue forecasts published so far have assumed that passengers will remain with their vehicles . |
| 29 | TODAY has learned that Diana was furious at this attempt to manipulate her . |
| 30 | To have seen him and de Castelnau together , one might well have assumed that Pétain was the born aristocrat , the squat and rather swarthy general the peasant ; though in fact it was the reverse . |