Example sentences of "[vb mod] have given a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So the coalition should have given a reasoned reply , welcoming the offer to withdraw and saying that all the other issues are open for discussion once the withdrawal has taken place and a cease-fire is in operation .
2 Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research .
3 We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years .
4 The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry .
5 Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech .
6 Your report ( 4 March ) regarding the proposed housing and golf course development at Archerfield , East Lothian , may have given a misleading impression of the current situation .
7 I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ?
8 ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it .
9 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
10 He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous .
11 Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know .
12 This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire .
13 Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it .
14 I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun .
15 It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute .
16 If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well .
17 A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading .
18 An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents .
19 However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect .
20 This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 .
21 The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope .
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