Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For , if he did not , he would have to continue to make partial payments to some of his creditors to the injury of others . |
| 5 | In no manner could they have delayed to ambush poor Irvine . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hence , they might both have expected to receive considerable support from such sources . |
| 8 | Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 13 | The prospect of such a deal may have helped to boost Colombian exports to Mexico by 27% last year . |
| 14 | A declining agricultural workforce may also have helped to convince local interests there was no real demand for rural council housing . |
| 15 | The Anti-Corn Law League may have helped to secure Whig support but what Peel himself called in a letter to Cobden his " 'sense of public duty " was more influential . " |
| 16 | Most patients ( 718/769 ) would have preferred to use postcoital contraception than experience an unplanned pregnancy . |
| 17 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 18 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 19 | Even the villains speak truly of their villainy , like Iago in Otello , but he , Davide , would have had to make false speeches to client and judge , had he taken the fees for claiming some rickety starveling was the landowner scholar come back to earth . |
| 20 | I should like to see what I would have to do to expose other aspects of your personality . ’ |
| 21 | They might at least have stayed to offer moral support ! |
| 22 | The General Medical Services Committee 's working party seems to have been unconcerned about how the public and politicians might view its proposals — otherwise it would not have proposed to increase professional control over a system already under challenge for partiality , lack of openness , and professional control . |
| 23 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 24 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 25 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 26 | Since Leapor , according to Freemantle , destroyed much of her juvenilia , it is possible she would have wanted to exercise similar judgement over the publication of her two volumes . |
| 27 | Rigid adherence to the letter of their instructions by commissioners can only have served to obscure important aspects of the structure of landholding . |
| 28 | Litter and Recycling : Industry will have to prepare to take recycled waste rather than use raw materials and the legislation may need the boost of tax incentives . |
| 29 | Among the mechanisms that may have evolved to resolve genetic conflicts are sex , Mendelian genetics , the existence of two sexes , the rarity of hermaphroditism and the equality of the sex ratio . |
| 30 | The lack of spatial learning with moving landmarks suggests that spatial learning processes may have evolved to extract geometric invariance from the environment in a manner analogous to that in which conventional associative learning principles are held to extract the ‘ causal structure ’ of the environment . |