Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps less obvious why both of them Polybius and Posidonius — should have played such a conspicuous part in exploring the barbarian West and in making it more easily accessible to the Romans . |
| 2 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 4 | I sensed him thinking that we should have had half a dozen in the boat by now . |
| 5 | They must have had such a pleasing approach to Raasay House ; the bay of their arrival seems unlikely to have changed , a wide and gentle place , now full of windsurfers — the mansion where they stayed now houses an Adventure School . |
| 6 | Nominating favourite and least favourite covers , there are so many of both to choose , so I 'll have to make this a personal choice . |
| 7 | He might have done this a good deal earlier if he had wanted for it was completely blank . |
| 8 | Destined to take over his father 's cattle station , he quickly defected and headed for Point Cook — the RAAF " Cranwell " — but not before several obstacles , which might have deterred many a lesser lad , had been overcome . |
| 9 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 10 | You know you 've got to get your foot in and you know if you 've got erm people in tackles , come on , they are n't any different to anybody else and maybe I thought we could have done that a little bit better . |
| 11 | Nobody could have foreseen such a rapid expansion prior to , and since , moving into the new premises . |
| 12 | " Who would have thought that , without cringing , the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union could have created such a splendid feeling among employers ! " |
| 13 | Only Lyman 's Ear could have detected such a sly whisper . |
| 14 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 15 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 16 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 17 | The attempt has failed , through scepticism that one man could have supervised such a major project whilst still discharging Elias 's functions as steward and administrator elsewhere . |
| 18 | Well , of course , if Niki left , Mario said back then , he 'd have to give that a good long look . |
| 19 | But if he 'd have had some a little bit of direction |
| 20 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 21 | Although Carlson felt there was some connection with the chaos and anarchy erupting over the Althosian system he was sure none of the Freedom Party supporters would have devised such a ruthless method for annihilating the elite . |
| 22 | Outgoing Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir was reported on June 27 to have said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv : " I would have carried on autonomy talks for 10 years and meanwhile we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria [ the West Bank ] … |
| 23 | Who would have believed this a short time ago ? … |
| 24 | In front of this woman , under any normal circumstances , she would have dropped half a dozen years , for she knew she did not look her age . |
| 25 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 26 | Galileo could not believe that a genius such as Archimedes would have used such a crude method . |
| 27 | Few articles can have made such a great and immediate impact on both the theoretical and practical planes . |