Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle did do well , but was n't quite as dynamic as Strach — he 'd do some very pretty stuff every now and then , but occasionally hold back a bit where Strach would have gone headlong into attack . |
| 2 | Curiously enough , in the one movement , the concluding ‘ In te Domine ’ , for which Charpentier employs , his accustomed time-signature for very fast movements , and where Christie could have justified doubling the speed , he adopts a more leisurely minim=g3 . |
| 3 | Derby start 2-1 down to Cambridge and Villa defend the same score at Wolves , where Taylor may have to trust in another piece of sports sagacity . |
| 4 | ‘ Get up and behave yourself or Marie will have to take you back to the nursery , ’ their father ordered . |
| 5 | Do you remember the Mall — that large expanse at the top of the Ridge , where Kipling must have walked and written his Just So stories ? |
| 6 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 7 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 8 | I think that Rocky & Deane will have a good enough rest of season to get then squad places |
| 9 | purists may have an essential moral objection that this approach is false — what Ruskin or Morris would have called a lie . |
| 10 | Brooking , Devonshire or Dickens would have rendered useless Leeds 's tedious offside trap by the simple expedient of running through from deep with the ball . |
| 11 | And the two of them would discuss , with some enthusiasm , where Donald could have acquired this information . |
| 12 | Really there was no other word for it , though only he or Mervyn could have said it . |
| 13 | Given the existence of a European community , there is no good reason , in equity or commonsense , why a fisherman from Fleetwood or Grimsby should have precedence in Hebridean waters over a fisherman from Hamburg or Brest . |
| 14 | The most serious objections to the new plan are the effect on county finances of six or seven fewer home matches , the possible resultant loss of members and the fact that cricket on traditional peripheral grounds such as Aigburth , Harrogate or Bath might have to be eliminated . |
| 15 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 16 | Rather , where God could have softened Pharaoh 's heart ( as he did Paul 's ) he simply let him be . |
| 17 | The Great Chain of Being has here become a matter of moral variety rather than biological species variety , but it is quite plain where Locke would have wanted to place himself . |
| 18 | Using the simple principle that the bigger the crowd the better the revenue , either Hong Kong or Japan would have been better suited to host the event . |
| 19 | Perhaps Cantona & Wallace would have worked , but Cantona was n't tough enough to be the front man , as scum found out in Turkey ( ha , ha ) , I 'm sure if Hughes had played instead they would still be in the EC . |
| 20 | Celia Freeman was of far greater help than either Morse or Lewis could have wished . |
| 21 | He doubted if the authorities represented by Merymose and Kenamun would pay him as much as Reni or Ipuky would have ; and he doubted if he would receive any reward at all if he were unsuccessful . |
| 22 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 23 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 24 | ‘ In terms of location , either Chester or Stockport would have been preferable . |
| 25 | Or Ealhfrith could have left sons . |
| 26 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 27 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 28 | Not sure of the reception she would get if she spoke to the other girl , not sure what her mother or Feargal might have told her , she was about to duck back into her room when Terry turned . |
| 29 | ‘ And you 've no idea where Chris could have hidden the book ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Or Hilary could have kept her away . ’ |