Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists have studied how the cloud of electrons , protons and neutrons that came out of the big bang would have coalesced to make nuclei and atoms ; their studies correctly predict the proportion of various chemical elements in the universe . |
| 2 | ‘ No chance that they 'd have conspired to bribe Ramsbum or Gooseneck or someone to do it for them ? ’ |
| 3 | But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians . |
| 4 | Secondly , on the broader ground that the legislature could not have intended to give power to a court of summary jurisdiction to control nuisances from such works . |
| 5 | The list could be expanded to incorporate any treaty which provides for mutuality , reciprocity , or where the personal identity of the other party is important , for then , by definition the parties can not have intended to allow assignment . |
| 6 | It calculated that a typical out-of-work student entitled to housing benefit and income support could have expected to receive £733.80 over the 12-week vacation . |
| 7 | No , she told me , she was not in any great pain — simply the discomfort she would have expected to follow surgery . |
| 8 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 9 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 10 | Marigold , his wife , he would not of course have permitted to give womb-room to such a foreign body or to take the pill or consider any so-called reversible tube-tyings . |
| 11 | The possibility arises of a special relationship between Eadwine and his former benefactors , the eastern Angles , so that an alliance between Eadwine and Eorpwald , though one in which the northern Anglian rather than the eastern Anglian king was now the dominant party , may have come to characterize Eadwine 's ascendancy as an overlord . |
| 12 | If you have worked hard to develop a solid gigging career and no one is offering you a deal , the time may have come to approach record companies directly . |
| 13 | He accepted a copy of the book with words which have remained with me — and may well have come to haunt Casey wherever he now is . |
| 14 | and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept , if not a physical one , and he might have wished to take shelter . |
| 15 | If poor Mrs Cecil had been less lethargic , she might have wished to echo George Washington 's last words , addressed to his physician : ‘ I thank you for your attentions ; but I pray you take no more trouble about me . |
| 16 | What could I have done to make Justin holier than thou , say anything like that ? |
| 17 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 18 | But there are also domestic reasons why it should have decided to cease co-operation with the IAEA . |
| 19 | Peyton may have decided to have Godfrey killed both because of his ‘ betrayal ’ and to stir up hatred against the Catholics , on whom suspicion would inevitably fall . |
| 20 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 21 | The fact is that , had this marriage of friends not taken place , Granada would have sought to abduct Tyne Tees once restrictions were lifted in 1994 . |
| 22 | This similarity should caution against making too firm a distinction between the three ; for example one might have sought to make distinctions in terms of being instances of either ‘ new ’ or ‘ old ’ racism , especially on the grounds that new racists , unlike old racists , will justify their position by citing non-racial general principles ( Sniderman and Tetlock , 1986a , 1986b ; see also Potter and Wetherell , 1987 , for arguments against deducing ‘ true ’ attitudes from discourse ) . |
| 23 | It could have resisted payment , and the revenue had no means other than the taking of legal proceedings which it might have used to enforce payment . |
| 24 | The vendor may have agreed to sell land with vacant possession , but at the date set for completion be unable or unwilling to provide it . |
| 25 | If a stranger could have such an effect on her she should never have agreed to wear Paul 's ring . |
| 26 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 27 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 28 | Certain factors specific to the Dounreay-Thurso area would have tended to promote transmission and heavy exposure . |
| 29 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 30 | Opponents point out that it is highly unlikely that the prototype tiger would have needed to develop stripes if it had originated in the open spaces of the barren and chilly north . |