Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plant , which would have cost between £1,100 million and £1,700 million , had already been backed by the cabinet , but was rejected by MPs on environmental grounds , despite the boost it would have given to recession-hit Finnish industry . |
| 2 | In no manner could they have delayed to ambush poor Irvine . ’ |
| 3 | Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way . |
| 4 | Surely someone somewhere should have checked to make sure that it was correct . ’ |
| 5 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 6 | Hence , they might both have expected to receive considerable support from such sources . |
| 7 | Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools . |
| 8 | It appears to be in the early stages of transition into a red giant and normally we would not have expected to find intelligent life anywhere within its field of influence . ’ |
| 9 | Incidentally , who , a couple of decades back , would have expected to find high-quality Turkish cuisine in Chorlton-cum-Hardy ? |
| 10 | By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 13 | Could have decided to do away with herself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I may have agreed to keep quiet about how we know each other , but I did n't agree to our relationship being viewed as an affair ! ’ she protested . |
| 16 | The revival of activity occasioned by the 1918 Act and its redistribution may have helped to revive local Unionist parties , but in fact the war had a less serious effect than might be expected . |
| 17 | The prospect of such a deal may have helped to boost Colombian exports to Mexico by 27% last year . |
| 18 | A declining agricultural workforce may also have helped to convince local interests there was no real demand for rural council housing . |
| 19 | The Anti-Corn Law League may have helped to secure Whig support but what Peel himself called in a letter to Cobden his " 'sense of public duty " was more influential . " |
| 20 | In a reply to Clark 's letter , he says ‘ The allegations of Dr Clark compel me to place on record facts that I should have preferred to remain private . |
| 21 | Most patients ( 718/769 ) would have preferred to use postcoital contraception than experience an unplanned pregnancy . |
| 22 | To obtain a clear white wine from black grapes Dom Pérignon would have had to employ sophisticated pressing techniques ; it is most likely , therefore , that it was Pérignon who invented the traditional Champagne press , designed exactly for this purpose . |
| 23 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 24 | And there were a hundred reasons why he might have had to ask Lexy to make the phone call . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( Moorcroft would also have had to prepare public and student lectures . ) |
| 28 | They might at least have stayed to offer moral support ! |
| 29 | And I should have remembered to dance barefoot through the dew and bow to the rising sun . ’ |
| 30 | The General Medical Services Committee 's working party seems to have been unconcerned about how the public and politicians might view its proposals — otherwise it would not have proposed to increase professional control over a system already under challenge for partiality , lack of openness , and professional control . |