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

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1 Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang .
2 Without it , the county education authority would only have had £650,000 to spend on building work this year .
3 The plain fact is that even in a deposit based account , unless you 're a non-tax payer , any interest you make will already have had tax deducted and you may find your money is probably doing no more than keeping pace with inflation .
4 Or might she just have found time to sneak up here undetected ?
5 I could quite easily have used gravy browning instead . ’
6 Inspector Blakelock or Brend Pridmore could easily have had occasion to go there .
7 The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) .
8 She doubted that he would ever have had reason to suggest that to Nicole .
9 ‘ Do n't worry , there was no way in the world that I would ever have allowed Janice to get anywhere near her . ’
10 Where there is a concentration , but the Regulation does not apply because the thresholds are not met , the Commission will still have limited powers to intervene and national courts will be able to apply Article 86 .
11 Also , the goons will hardly have had time to make anything out of those bits of wood by then .
12 I do n't suppose Mehra can possibly have had time to knock out some SF on the side , but I am deeply curious to know which great scientist lurks behind the mask of ‘ Robert Anton Wilson ’ .
13 He must be caught in it as he could n't possibly have had time to get back to where he was staying yet .
14 Usually , these men 's urine flow will be abnormally slow , even in the absence of prostatic enlargement , and they may always have had difficulty urinating in a public place , according to Graham Watson , who runs a prostatitis clinic at the London Institute of Urology .
15 Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled .
16 All three directors would probably have liked ICI to narrow its broad span of interests to just two : a bulk commodities business and a value-added specialties business .
17 While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million .
18 Before that stage , the program may also have provided instructions to encourage you to copy files on to a blank disc in drive A : , to ‘ please insert this in another machine ’ and type A:Share .
19 The tenant will also have implied rights to use any passages or corridors that are necessary means of access .
20 It was then the practice to drop depth charges with a setting of 100 feet , on the assumption that the U-boat would often have had time to submerge .
21 Magnus could have made one of his rude jokes which would really have got Claire going .
22 Moreover in the years 1176–7 he was taking a keen interest in the competing politics of the Spanish kingdoms and he may well have instructed Richard to ensure that the great road south from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees was kept open for travellers of all sorts , pilgrims , traders and couriers .
23 Social class and rural-urban contrasts , and different relations with British colonial states and education systems , are very likely to be involved as causal influences here , and Swann could well have commissioned research to explore some of the underlying issues .
24 Thirdly , it is also possible that the advances in birth control operating within the climate of an ‘ acquisitive society ’ might well have permitted couples to plan their family lives in such a way as to allow them to enjoy the consumer benefits of society .
25 These decisions may well have encouraged people to view criminal litigation as a game of skill .
26 ( Had it been an excess of antiquarks , however , we would simply have named antiquarks quarks , and quarks antiquarks . )
27 A gradual advance or retreat of the sea from its highest point would surely have produced pock marks all the way down to present sea-level .
28 A director other than Browne might have given more theatrical conviction to the Furies , as other more recent productions have done , and a more enthusiastic public response might then have persuaded Eliot to continue with his exploration of symbolist drama .
29 At the same time , the adventure had also proved immensely informative , uncovering vast tracts of our civilisation 's past — and not just biblical — which we and our readers might not otherwise have had occasion to explore .
30 He should never have let Lee go out on his own .
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