Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Soon I shall have given enough souls to my Masters .
32 Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety , poverty , chronic illness , multiple losses and death .
33 And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes .
34 We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results .
35 Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) .
36 The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success .
37 But actually any three anchor points on the plane would have done the trick just as well , and would have given identical results .
38 An independent share valuation would have given these shares a total value of about £50,000 .
39 ‘ The players could not have given any more .
40 The players are down but they could not have given any more . ’
41 Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours .
42 He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be .
43 So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector .
44 However , had the last element in p been other than 4 , the three pairs of equations would have given three different answers .
45 That would have given three X squared Well that 's
46 Whilst Britain was genuinely concerned about honouring its debts there was a high mindedness about it which shut out any consideration of alternatives which , by reducing the obligation to maintain the value of sterling , would have given more scope for domestic planning .
47 But as I say the the people who did not five five percent er , therefore , others may not have given more !
48 We hope to ensure that every candidate will have given some consideration to the issues which affect older people .
49 During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time .
50 Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’
51 CORRECTION : Our June feature on redundancy may have given some readers the impression that redundancy pay is based on full pay , which is incorrect .
52 So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking .
53 Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer .
54 She 'd have given both arms to have avoided even meeting the blasted man .
55 Who in the ninth century could have foreseen modern France ?
56 But , then , he could not have foreseen such terrible days as these , when ‘ the contemplation of futurity ’ inspired only fear and dread .
57 Nobody could have foreseen such a rapid expansion prior to , and since , moving into the new premises .
58 Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong .
59 While motives may have been broadly consistent and widely shared , progress was in fact often erratic and haphazard , disagreements were many and the early Meiji leaders could scarcely have foreseen some of the longer term consequences of their policies .
60 Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this .
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