Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 14 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 15 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The additional space thus provided would not only have allowed the reproduction of documents of a useful length , but would also have avoided anomalies such as the absence of any statements by the Third Marquis of Salisbury , Stanley Baldwin , Walter Elliot , Noel Skelton , the ‘ Mannheim Group ’ , and other leading Conservative politicians and publicists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 23 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 24 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 25 | At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference . |
| 26 | His mind would gleefully have converted the money into his own units of currency — large whiskies and five-pound yankees . |
| 27 | In concerning ourselves with the needs of pupils , we may too long have ignored the need to give our teachers services and support and help them to feel adequate to cope with the demands that education in the modern world is making upon them . |
| 28 | If she had been killed , he would personally have roasted the man over a slow fire . |
| 29 | We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites . |
| 30 | It should perhaps be added that the amended section 4 would not necessarily have caught the conduct in question , because of its definition in terms of violence which might follow from the defendant 's conduct . |