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 . |