Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The prospect of such a deal may have helped to boost Colombian exports to Mexico by 27% last year . |
| 5 | A declining agricultural workforce may also have helped to convince local interests there was no real demand for rural council housing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 9 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rigid adherence to the letter of their instructions by commissioners can only have served to obscure important aspects of the structure of landholding . |
| 12 | 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 . |