Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 2 | What a delight it must have been to watch express trains thundering up the bank at Arkwright bridge . |
| 3 | Some of the beautifully carved crosses could originally have been re-shaped pagan monuments . |
| 4 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 5 | She could n't have been supplying Russian weapons typewriter unlisted phone numbers — oh were those two Second Secretaries on the No-go-Alone List ? ’ |
| 6 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 7 | As might be expected , policy rules of quite formidable complexity have been developed in the rational expectations literature , the best known of these being that proposed by Barro ( 1977 ) in which he attempts to model the process by which the growth in the money supply is determined and , on the basis of the prediction of what the money supply should have been given known values for its determining variables , to derive a time series for ‘ anticipated ’ changes in the money supply . |
| 8 | Ideally , the teams studied might have been serving similar populations with similar levels of staffing and other resources , and the samples might have been carefully standardized . |
| 9 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 10 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 11 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 12 | These , referred to in his diary , may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors ' guide books . |
| 13 | Hence , the argument runs , even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services . |
| 14 | He also saw two carriages that might have been carrying senior officers , and he flirted with the idea that one of the carriages might have belonged to the Emperor himself . |
| 15 | Had the words been capable of bearing this defamatory meaning , Schild might have been awarded enormous damages . |
| 16 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |