Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [adj] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 2 | Of these , Busia was to make his mark later : an Oxford graduate , the first African to be taken into the Colonial Service ( in 1942 ) , he was exactly the type the British would have preferred . |
| 3 | He said the concentration on help for business , especially small firms , improved job prospects and was the best form of help the unemployed could have . |
| 4 | Pluvial and arid periods had always alternated but at some point the latter must have come to dominate in a prolonged drought . |
| 5 | ( Arguably had they carried out their duties properly when they first came across Rodney King the same would have applied ) . |
| 6 | Had this been the case of life or death the latter would have happened , ’ said Mrs Countley , who plans to contact Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster about the issue . |
| 7 | The more the external reduces uncertainty , and the less replaceable the external is , then the more power the external will have . |