Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peck landed somewhere around her right ear , accompanied by an awkwardness of movement that implied they would have rather avoided the situation . |
| 2 | Fourteen-year-old RACHEL SEATON was so bored she 'd have rather spent the 30 minutes doing her homework . |
| 3 | The atmosphere remained fraught , and though he may have secretly relished the animation it gave to things , he needed to settle into a quiet routine if he was going to produce good work . |
| 4 | For one thing , it is doubtful if OPEC could have successfully imposed the price increase at the time it did in the absence of the high levels of demand that accompanied the mini-boom . |
| 5 | If that crossroads was lost , then Napoleon would have successfully swung the two doors apart . |
| 6 | If you are granting approval , you must have successfully prepared the package ( and obtained the approval listings ) . |
| 7 | Also , for granting approval , you must have successfully prepared the package for approval using option 1.5.2 . |
| 8 | In order to gain a Record of Achievement a student must have successfully completed the assessment schedule(s) of the single area(s) of study for which he/she is registered . |
| 9 | In order to gain a Record of Achievement a student must have successfully completed the assessment schedule(s) including the examination(s) for the single area(s) of study for which he/she is registered . |
| 10 | But it is unlikely that the ICC could have successfully mounted an exercise to codify contract rules governing commercial agency agreements , though a Working party of the ICC 's Commission on International Commercial practice under the chair-manship of professor Fabio Bortolotti has successfully completed a model form of agency contract for international trade and is proceeding with work on a model distribution contract . |
| 11 | Reports suggested that Lekhanya might have successfully forestalled a coup attempt — Radio Lesotho reported that a large cache of arms had been found at the home of Lt.-Col. Sekhobe Letsie . |
| 12 | The more conservative sceptics of reform would have gladly closed the door on the outside , non-communist world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the end they did n't perform and have since left the country ‘ in disgust ’ it 's claimed . |
| 15 | It is doubtful if Eugénie 's presence would have much affected the outcome , which was , almost inevitably in the circumstances of the power-game , inconsequential . |
| 16 | If the Smiths had only produced sunny , cuddly stuff like ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Ask ’ , ‘ Vicar in a Tutu ’ , they would have merely presaged the perky negligibility of The Housemartins , the sound that grins itself to death . |
| 17 | Theda had shoved it on so hastily that she must have carelessly left a little hair visible . |
| 18 | Had they done so they would certainly have greatly accelerated the rate at which they colonised the land . |
| 19 | Klaus Maurice , the secretary-general of the German quasi-governmental agency that negotiated the deal , said at the time : ‘ If we had pursued the lawsuit in Dallas , the legal fees would have greatly exceeded the amount we agreed to pay . ’ |
| 20 | A more gentle incline , orientated parallel to the locks , would have greatly reduced the cost of the foundations and earthworks . |
| 21 | ( No. 2 ) may have greatly reduced the importance of ‘ unlawful means conspiracy . ’ |
| 22 | Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices . |
| 23 | If the system wo n't boot from the original C : \ drive then you may have inadvertently configured the drive as a slave , or the cable may be reversed either on the IDE interface card , or one of the drives . |
| 24 | JASON Livingston 's future in athletics looks even more bleak following his reported newspaper ‘ confession ’ that he must have inadvertently taken a banned steroid before the Olympics . |
| 25 | Last year it might have hard-headedly encouraged a negotiated partition . |
| 26 | The life which Jesus advocated must have necessarily had an appeal to men rather than to women , for it would in many cases have put women in an impossible position . |
| 27 | My man had an abhorrence of show and pomp and hypocrisy , and would have so enjoyed the moments of absurdity and humour . |
| 28 | The total size of the claims resulting from such an incident might well be enormous , even though the computer program itself may have only cost a few hundred pounds . |
| 29 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 30 | But er Berty said it would have only lasted a couple of weeks , cos Alec wo n't talk . |