Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [that] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soon became clear that she might have got the date and the king wrong , that she had n't seen the guinea for years , and so forth . |
| 2 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 3 | Kate had told him that at present there were only women in the house and it seemed sensible that he should have a woman with him , particularly as it was Kate who had first broken the news . |
| 4 | It seemed impossible that she could have fallen in love so swiftly and completely , especially when she 'd managed to remain heart-whole quite effortlessly all this time . |
| 5 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 6 | ‘ But it seemed inconceivable that it could have been an accident . ’ |
| 7 | But er I 'd two that I used to have on the wall at home I can remember . |
| 8 | In 1811 they returned to Britain on leave and soon it became obvious that he would have to choose between the convict 's daughter and his military career . |
| 9 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 10 | It seems doubtful that they could have done otherwise . |
| 11 | If it seems inevitable that you will have to leave , consultation may still achieve a useful improvement in your severance terms . |
| 12 | It now seems inevitable that he will have to devalue within the ERM . |
| 13 | However , it seems likely that they could have given the 1968 Act a more liberal interpretation since it merely requires a local authority to provide sewerage wherever it can but within the bounds of reason and by no means universally . |
| 14 | Although it is too soon to draw any firm conclusions about the effects of this scheme , it seems likely that it will have a considerable impact on the culture of schools , and the future structure of schooling itself . |
| 15 | ‘ Once he was satisfied — and I feel sure that he must have consulted the lady concerned since she , after all , is the person who has to wear it — he ordered it . ’ |
| 16 | Then we will hear all that you may have to tell . ’ |
| 17 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 18 | Some use them to store management committee records , a few use them for bureau statistics but although their contribution is growing , it seems unlikely that they will have an immediate effect on client queues . |
| 19 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 20 | If the animal lived on the sea bottom , it seems unlikely that it would have eye lenses specialized for looking downwards , and we begin to suspect that the animal habitually dwelt above the sea floor . |
| 21 | It seems important that I should have links , in developing links you ought to see that as part of our agenda . |
| 22 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 23 | Mr Widdup said : ‘ Having lost the planning battle it looked likely that we would have had to allow our property to be dug up for services like electricity and sewerage . |
| 24 | Miss Honey felt confident that she would have no difficulty in convincing Mr and Mrs Wormwood that Matilda was something very special indeed . |
| 25 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 26 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 27 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 28 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 29 | Sometimes it may seem obvious that there must have been negligence , as in the case of the purchaser of a bath bun who found a stone in the middle of it ( Chaproniere v. Mason ( 1905 C.A. ) ) . |
| 30 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |