Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus not difficult to understand why Paul 's essentially ‘ pagan ’ cult should have been so persuasive , nor why it should subsequently have triumphed over the less comforting position of the Nazarean dynasty — of James and ultimately of Jesus himself . |
| 2 | and eventually it will all have to come out . |
| 3 | Indeed , you had , you had thought about it and so it would just have been a case of saying , yes , this is obvious . |
| 4 | And then it might never have happened . |
| 5 | It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) . |
| 6 | erm and certainly it would not have much retention . |
| 7 | Modern scientific medicine has of course dispensed with such speculative constructs , but thereby it may also have sacrificed therapeutic insights available to our renaissance predecessors . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , but then it would n't have been a surprise , would it ? ’ |
| 9 | After the event Melby was far more pessimistic : ‘ the sickening feeling that this was China all over again' and if , as he allowed , that in Indo-China French colonial policy was as intransigent as ever it may well have been reciprocated as High Commissioner Pignon and General Carpentier both admitted to Melby ‘ privately and with great reluctance that hatred of the French outweighed all other considerations in the thinking of all Vietnamese , whatever their political persuasions ’ . |
| 10 | With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done . |