Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 2 | ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us . |
| 3 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 4 | She was n't sure how she had expected him to react to her announcement — gratitude or admiration might have been a bit much to hope for , she acknowledged wryly , but even a faint hint of relief would have been something . |
| 5 | The false statement or trick must have deceived the victim into acting as he did . |
| 6 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
| 7 | ‘ Because , ’ Doctor Agrippa intervened , ‘ he probably thought that you or Shallot would have discovered something during your travels in Scotland and France to trap him . ’ |
| 8 | The legislature voted itself sweeping powers to remove Mr Yeltsin if he deviated from the constitution and cancelled a referendum on whether the parliament or president should have the primacy in Russia . |
| 9 | But where the defect or fault should have been detected during normal maintenance , this would not constitute a defence and there would probably be an offence under the appropriate Construction and Use Regulations . |
| 10 | From next year your agrochemical salesman or adviser could have a new set of professional letters after his name . |
| 11 | Running this through the sophisticated computer models for atmospheric chemistry that now exist , the group calculates that some 50 000 tonnes pa of ethane or propane would have to be injected into the stratosphere to mop up the free chlorine created each Antarctic spring . |
| 12 | Or Bonanza could have figured she was better out of the way . |
| 13 | But both decisions were at the request of the race organizers who felt any cancellation or withdrawal may have resulted in a mass exodus of spectators from the circuit which would have hindered rescue operations . |
| 14 | The machines could have been used to pace the workers , or management could have monitored the utilisation rate of the various machines . |
| 15 | Huy found himself wishing that he were able to read some comment on the policeman 's face — anger or disapproval might have been easier . |
| 16 | That this evidence is found mainly ( particularly in the Quattrocento ) in religious art , where fantasy may have influenced the artist 's vision to an unchartable extent , is a real problem . |
| 17 | These three factors must be considered together because it seems that both parental mental illness and parental separation or divorce may have a particularly damaging effect on the children if they are associated with prolonged overt marital discord , especially where the child becomes directly involved . |
| 18 | I pointed out that the head of any such branch or formation would have less experience than myself or my successor in the medium in which we proposed to operate . |
| 19 | Errors of fact or law will have to stand , provided the expert can be said to have asked himself " the right question " . |
| 20 | Those who belong to a particular group or stratum will have some awareness of common interests and a common identity . |
| 21 | Here also the provision of small areas of high quality forage by means of the use of suitable plants , e.g. subterranean clover , or irrigation for the production of herbage for grazing or cutting could have a significant influence in animal production . |
| 22 | The difficulties that a Martian or child might have with such a system are neatly illustrated in the following Yiddish story : A melamed [ Hebrew teacher ] discovering that he had left his comfortable slippers back in the house , sent a student after them with a note for his wife . |
| 23 | His dress was too rich for his usual strenuous hunting , nor were there hounds abroad , or Iorwerth would have known and signalled it long ago . |
| 24 | Every terrorist or criminal will have all the identity cards he wants . |
| 25 | In order to keep the sorted list , the school librarian or teacher would have to ask the computer to save it on disk i.e. copy it on to the floppy disk . |
| 26 | ‘ Illness or accident could have isolated him somewhere . |
| 27 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 28 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 29 | This has been at least implicitly recognised by pluralists because , as Polsby suggests , if true , the elitists ' and Marxists contention of the importance of non-observable influences and constraints emanating from one class or group would have important repercussions for the way in which one characterises Western political systems . |
| 30 | Yet a person or group may have power by shaping beliefs , values and desires . |