Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So you see , in schools like that we would never go uniformed and we would have to discontinue visiting those schools as we would be jeopardizing the children and teachers .
2 The plant , which would have cost between £1,100 million and £1,700 million , had already been backed by the cabinet , but was rejected by MPs on environmental grounds , despite the boost it would have given to recession-hit Finnish industry .
3 However , the addition can not be drawn until your husband retires , and if he works on after this age , you will have to wait to receive this pension .
4 He had been a reluctant ally and may well have resented playing second fiddle to his younger brother .
5 At the moment it is only available commercially , so until the happy day when we can all buy it , I suppose I 'll have to continue meeting resident weevils in my bathroom .
6 But a spokesman for Asda said confidence was brittle and retailers would have to continue to provide real value for money in the battle to win an important share of High Street custom .
7 There will be an ever-widening gap between maintained and private schools , and especially boarding schools , which will have to continue to provide extra-curricular activities , even if they have to pay extra to their staff to enable them to do so .
8 For , if he did not , he would have to continue to make partial payments to some of his creditors to the injury of others .
9 In no manner could they have delayed to ambush poor Irvine . ’
10 There may be no overseas players next season and high-profile players may have to go to recoup some cash and pay off debts . ’
11 I do not however think the Court of Appeal can have intended to exclude all information in Goulding J's second category from possible protection by a restrictive covenant .
12 She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative .
13 Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young .
14 The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime .
15 Hence , they might both have expected to receive considerable support from such sources .
16 Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools .
17 The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections .
18 It appears to be in the early stages of transition into a red giant and normally we would not have expected to find intelligent life anywhere within its field of influence . ’
19 By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support .
20 He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed .
21 If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently .
22 We we do have to try to answer this question of whether or not there should be specific guidance about the location .
23 ‘ We should n't have took umbrage this morning , only — what with the people down here being so stand-offish , like , we got sort of sensitive about sausages .
24 The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated .
25 That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental .
26 He managed to connect all the moves except for the last in one push and doubtless would have succeeded given more time .
27 However , we would have wished to see those clauses altered .
28 In the first case , fieldworkers may have wished to retain certain functions , such as working directly with children and young people , as their prerogative , because they considered themselves to be better trained to undertake these tasks , albeit with limited time at their disposal and with , in some instances , limited skills .
29 Owing to his involvement with Darwin and other staff in the Senior Common Room , he may have wished to avoid any liaison with a student that would have embarrassed College authorities .
30 ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him .
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