Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [modal v] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in that second of hushed silence before the screen and fanfare blaze out , there came from the middle of the auditorium a huge and shocked voice ‘ What the fookin''ell are yo ’ doin' ? ' , followed almost at once by two mighty smacks that could only have been someone being hit . |
| 2 | That will be possible because I made the scheme more flexible , so the FHSAs are allowed to use the funds that would previously have been limited to practice premises and ancillary staff to support the continued development and expansion of computerisation of primary health care . |
| 3 | The new ceiling enabled the War Office to retain some extra units that would otherwise have been disbanded . |
| 4 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 5 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 6 | The BSS UK dismisses any suggestion that use of the Beltex as a terminal sire will lead to more lambing problems ; so far those who have used Beltex rams for crossing report no more incidence of assisted lambings than would normally have been dealt with . |
| 7 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 8 | Unfortunately this means that they occupy fairly similar orbits and could not have been formed in widely separated parts of the PFM . |
| 9 | The argument here is essentially that a gradation scheme might lead to a lighter sentence in certain cases than would otherwise have been imposed . |
| 10 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 11 | Robina Fairfax 's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own , so variously coloured and oddly shaped were they . |
| 12 | We did n't make a sale , though we did make contacts that would n't have been available to us otherwise . |
| 13 | Despite all the rational discussions that might ideally have been held before taking on tenancies , there 's nearly always one who takes liberties like this . |
| 14 | And two women pictured chatting at a cottage door ‘ Miss Jewitt and Miss Carter , Mickley 1921 , ’ as Louisa 's typically matter-of-fact caption notes sport fanciful bonnets that ca n't have been part of their everyday dress . |
| 15 | Yet the Africanness of those wars has meanwhile been obscured by the outbreak in Europe of tribal fights that would once have been dismissed as typically African . |
| 16 | A change in circumstances that could not have been predicted exactly does not mean that planning was incorrect in the first place . |
| 17 | Some archosaur fossils showed that one species , the longisquamata ( ‘ long-scales ’ ) , possessed heat-insulating scales that possibly also trapped air-pockets and may well have been the forerunners of feathers . |
| 18 | In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out . |
| 19 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 20 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 21 | The history of invention is replete with instances , like Carothers ' discovery of nylon , where a flash of insight to the possibilities of totally unanticipated results led to great discoveries that would otherwise have been missed . |
| 22 | This can only be achieved by examining the literature of the subject area thoroughly for any isolates that might possibly have been overlooked . |
| 23 | In 1991 it was therefore able to produce a far more comprehensive interim report for consultation purposes than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 24 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 25 | The façade , as well as the rest of the outside , is of Candoglia marble , a white stone with a pink tinge and blue veins that could not have been bettered as a choice for so ornate a structure . |
| 26 | The opposition thoughtfully provided a batting line-up of stroke-playing dashers , and bowlers that could easily have been selected at random from a passing Delhi omnibus . |
| 27 | Some patients with chronic liver disease may have been followed up as outpatients and may not have been admitted to hospital during the study period and , thus , these too would not have been identified . |
| 28 | Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments . |
| 29 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 30 | ‘ My dear fellow , we spend our time here working on things that should n't have been said , but unless they are , ’ he added thoughtfully , ‘ nobody gets anywhere . |