Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 2 | The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen . |
| 3 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 4 | ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’ |
| 5 | That way true supporters would have got the vouchers and would not have lost out in the draw . ’ |
| 6 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 7 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 8 | On 11 November 1918 bells and cheers rang out all over France on Armistice morning , and Modigliani can not have missed out on the celebrations . |
| 9 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 10 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 11 | They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year . |
| 12 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 13 | The change in rebates would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 14 | The Fontainebleau abatement would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that huge increase in real income clearly demonstrates the overall success of Conservative policies and would not have come about without the tax cuts that all families have experienced ? |
| 16 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 17 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 18 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 19 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 20 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 21 | If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident . |
| 22 | The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined : even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment , even if managements had been more competent and imaginative , the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class . |
| 23 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
| 24 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 25 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 26 | So claiming that had this relationship continued Hilary would probably have ended up as the wife of a petrol pump attender rather than the wife of the President of the United States . |
| 27 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 28 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 29 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |