Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 Since we could barely stand up or speak there was little point in dropping in on Ted and Theresia , although perhaps they would n't have noticed much difference in my case , given as they are to ply me with drink .
2 As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples .
3 He may , like his father , have had a wetnurse ( though his father as one of twins was atypical ) , and if so he may not have remained with Judith when , for instance , she travelled to Rouen to meet her husband in November 824 .
4 If so he can not have been there long , for in 1589 he was killed under somewhat suspicious circumstances .
5 No cos then you would n't have enough space .
6 Cos otherwise they 'd never have been able to afford to go , so
7 . Er well I 'll put those down , so let's find some of these because obviously you wo n't have met them all , maybe .
8 Well I thought we 'd keep those because then you wo n't have any will you ?
9 You must have decided to follow her before she went into the school grounds , because otherwise you would n't have opted out of the swimming .
10 Because otherwise you could n't have pulled
11 cos this was Croydon I 'm pretty sure it yeah because otherwise she could n't have the basic from last year would she ?
12 So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless .
13 She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly .
14 That this was so , and that its effect was emphasised by the fact that it was largely in these same regions that opportunities for women and children to earn expanded when elsewhere they may even have declined , explains why home demand at least did not collapse despite increasing dependency ratios , very slowly growing income per capita and a deterioration in real wages on the part of , probably , the majority of the working population .
15 She missed Maggie , though once she would never have believed it possible .
16 After the event Melby was far more pessimistic : ‘ the sickening feeling that this was China all over again' and if , as he allowed , that in Indo-China French colonial policy was as intransigent as ever it may well have been reciprocated as High Commissioner Pignon and General Carpentier both admitted to Melby ‘ privately and with great reluctance that hatred of the French outweighed all other considerations in the thinking of all Vietnamese , whatever their political persuasions ’ .
17 With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done .
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