Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 The Exchequer would pay 5 per cent on the new stock and would have reduced its service cost by almost half .
2 All machines with colour monitors have a video card and should have at least 512Kb of on-board RAM .
3 He 'd taken the drug a square of paper like this , which would have distorted his perception and could have accentuated suicidal feelings .
4 Peter Rice at agents Richard Ellis/Hepper Robinson in Liverpool said : ‘ This virtually new production facility is one of the most up to date in the northwest and will have special appeal to manufacturers requiring sprinklers and the other fire safety features .
5 AD 700 was provided with an incipient keel and may have been able to bear the greater stresses of a sail .
6 These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull .
7 In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin .
8 The legislature would have a veto over appointments to key Cabinet posts , including that of Prime Minister , but would be subordinate to the President and would have little influence over economic policy .
9 Nevertheless , all the families were positive about the programme and would have another infant tested .
10 ‘ This party now has a programme and will have an internal structure of which any West European socialist party would be proud , ’ Imre Pozsgay , the party 's candidate for next month 's presidential candidate , said .
11 But Souness must sell before delving back into the transfer market to continue his rebuilding programme and will have to accept cut-price offers for the big trio .
12 The plan is to be renamed the Tropical Forestry Action Programme and will have the reformed objective of " conservation and sustainable development of forestry sources in the interests of the country concerned and the global community " .
13 In addition Mr Reynolds will eventually undergo major surgery on his bowel and will have a colostomy raised .
14 These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so .
15 Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ?
16 That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career .
17 Chiddingfold looked dangerous on the break and could have sealed that match , but for some fine defending .
18 Morton had not taken up arms previously , but he knew that some of his friends would have gone to the conventicle and would have volunteered to take part in the unequal contest against the soldiers .
19 Indeed , because of deficiencies , the Air Force has had to change some of its plans for the bomber and may have to dish out an extra $1 billion to correct the problems .
20 I was uneasy in the dark and would have turned on the torch except that after only one fifth of the journey I had used half my batteries .
21 Groom stood her ground and , eventually , as a way out of the impasse , telephoned the Woman 's Page editor in London , who advised her that , as she was already in France , she should do the interview and would have to send it to the Ashleys for their approval before publication .
22 Come on girls , put on your Spear gear and let's have some fun !
23 Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions .
24 He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate .
25 Cheshire police needed 26 more civilian staff to deal with the extra workload and might have to cut uniformed officers jobs as a result .
26 From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care .
27 JM : I think that that 's a very clever pun and must have taken you ages to think up .
28 Deaf mothers often said they did not understand descriptions of the advance of the baby during the second stage of labour and would have liked to see what was happening .
29 If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago .
30 Six surviving compositions may be ascribed with certainty to Plummer , namely two movements of a four-voiced tenor Mass with the antiphon ‘ Nesciens Mater ’ as its tenor , and three three-voiced settings of Marian antiphons which do not use the chant and must have been sung as votive memorial pieces ; his masterpiece , Anna Mater Matris Christi , sets a respond , again without the chant , in a remarkable texture of three equal tenors with an optional treble part riding above — certainly a fitting example of the art of the master of the chapel children .
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