Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material .
2 In an appendix to his book , Atkinson surmises that the Horngarth may have originated in a hedge bounding the abbot 's right of way .
3 People say having a baby ruins your life , and talk about what you could have done in a job and that .
4 George you may have seen in a wine bar , often in the company of younger lawyers ; or at the theatre , with a blonde ; or on the steps of the Garrick , with or without a blonde .
5 If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book .
6 A man must have lurked in a car parked between two lamp standards , noting the time of arrival , the minute the curtains had been drawn at her bedroom , the second their shadows met and intertwined behind the window .
7 Up to 30 victims could have died in a basement community centre directly below where the jumbo jet struck .
8 A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back .
9 Indeed , such legislation would have helped in a case like that , because the asylum seeker concerned sought asylum at the port of entry .
10 Then succulent hare cooked in wine , a jelly moulded in the form of a castle , and a jug of chilled white wine and claret which Cranston would have downed in a trice .
11 Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy .
12 Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque .
13 What has also developed is a kind of unofficial contest between himself and Warren Beatty which is all about women , i.e. , their famous conquests and their alleged insatiable quests to make it with the world 's most attractive women , or some alluring beauty either may have encountered in a bar or restaurant .
14 Well I would n't have thought she 'd have gone in a shop like that anyway cos there 's some more expensive stuff in there .
15 Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute .
16 I 'll have finished in a couple of hours .
17 ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says .
18 If we 'd have put in a price based on A C scaled fees , we would have overspent by a hundred and fifty five percent .
19 ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’
20 Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion .
21 A combination of the ideology of the market-place , public hostility to nuclear power and fears of high energy prices adding to the problems of an uncompetitive manufacturing industry may have resulted in a setback for nuclear power in Britain , but fossil fuels would no longer seem such overwhelmingly good value , according to Chris Patten , if their wider environmental costs were allocated and more fully reflected in prices .
22 Close support would have resulted in a try , but Alresford converted the penalty when the visitors were again guilty of kicking the ruck .
23 In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio .
24 He used his pace and aerial strength and created some chances , one of his passed could easily have resulted in a goal .
25 There was also a reduction in the number of elderly bus passenger casualties which may have resulted in a fall in the number of trips being made following the introduction of fares for concessionary travel .
26 That important stroke was the result of Olazabal and Stewart narrowly missing birdie putts on the 18th which would have resulted in a play-off .
27 It was held that this loss should be recoverable from the shipowners because they should reasonably have contemplated that the delay would have resulted in a loss .
28 But this latest attack is the worst , and could so easily have resulted in a loss of life .
29 At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful .
30 We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’
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