Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 32 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |
| 33 | An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents . |
| 34 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 35 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |
| 36 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 37 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
| 38 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 39 | In the meanwhile , the Constable bought in at Sotheby 's last month at £850,000 may have given the Principal pause for thought . |
| 40 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 41 | This fell short , however , of the two-thirds majority in the 250-seat Supreme Soviet which would have given the Round Table a free hand to effect constitutional changes . |
| 42 | The solicitors for Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council , which paid out £15,000 compensation to Veronica Bland , have confirmed that reports in the media may have given the false impression that such a relationship has been established . |
| 43 | In fact , if I 'd been there I would have given the wretched old woman a hefty slap myself — just to see how she liked it ! ’ |
| 44 | Some may have given the wrong answer for reasons other than conceptual difficulty : making a slip , an arithmetic error , misreading or not being able to read the question , not trying and so on . |
| 45 | Data accumulated subsequently suggests that the M 52 could have been flown safely and might have given the British aircraft industry a commanding lead in supersonic fighter development . |
| 46 | If all these bodies bore similar complements of volatiles then this homogeneous accretion ( of volatiles ) would have given the initial distribution in Figure 5.1(a) . |
| 47 | But who could have foreseen the amazing house-price boom of 1987 and 1988 ? |
| 48 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 49 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 50 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 51 | It is less sure that anyone in 1975 could have foreseen the dramatic increase in the demand for places in the ten years to follow . |
| 52 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 53 | IF YOU had been in Whitehall one day in April 13 years ago you would have witnessed a remarkable sight . |
| 54 | Leapor would have witnessed the early stages of this reorganization in agriculture . |
| 55 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 56 | If the hon. Gentleman had participated in our debates in Committee , he would have heard a wide range of differing views and opinions expressed by the various parties in Northern Ireland — and , to some extent , by people within the same party . |
| 57 | Nevertheless it is a remarkable tribute to the perseverance and courage of the participants that the ceremonial proceedings were concluded , although no one could have heard a single word of what was spoken into the gale and blown back . |
| 58 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 59 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 60 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |