Example sentences of "but [adj] [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that might not have been too convenient . |
| 2 | Pakistan claim the ball was changed under Law 5 simply because it had gone soft — but that would not have needed the intervention of the match referee . |
| 3 | But that would n't have been easy . |
| 4 | I also did one or two of those hijackings over Nevada — but that would n't have interested you . |
| 5 | ‘ But that would n't have meant a thing to Elise , would it ? |
| 6 | When there were contractors to be handed out directors may have tried to help one another , but that can hardly have been a sufficient reason for buying up large blocks of shares . |
| 7 | Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours , but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport . |
| 8 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first refers to his presence under 994 , but this may not have been his first visit . |
| 9 | As shown , the inversion breakpoint which disrupted the duplicated region coincides with a boundary of the cluster duplication event , but this need not have been the case . |
| 10 | Loss of balance , dizziness and tingling can result from close contact with the stones , but this can also have a positive effect on the health and fertility of people brought into such contact . |
| 11 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 12 | There may be a gain in the number of children at the school but this could well have happened through factors such as population change or a new housing development that are totally unconnected to the work on raising the school 's visibility and image . |
| 13 | Dose reduction is mentioned in the conclusions of the paper but this could easily have been incorporated in the design ; instead , one of the randomised groups in the study received 9 instead of 14 days of epoetin , a seemingly meaningless comparison . |
| 14 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
| 15 | It could have been provided as an additional barrier to odour , but this could only have been achieved by the use of waxed paper — as seen in the Lethieullier vault at Little Ilford , Essex — between the top of the sides of the coffin and the lid . |
| 16 | But this could hardly have been foreseen in 1880 . |
| 17 | But 1940 would surely have been a different tale , if 1937 and 1938 were anything to go by . |
| 18 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |
| 19 | The extracellular matrix laid down by microbial cells in microbial biosensors will show a more random orientation of structural components , but these can also have a dominant influence on the flux of the product and the substrate . |
| 20 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 21 | But all might not have gone well . |