Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , large size for carnivores would not necessarily have meant a remorseless and continued struggle to find food . |
| 2 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 3 | Meredith craned her neck and saw behind her an even older notice announcing a trio of public hangings , two of them for offences which in some circumstances would not even have warranted a custodial sentence today . |
| 4 | Mother-child separation at four months of age may not be too disturbing , as the child will not yet have formed a lasting selective attachment to her . |
| 5 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 6 | Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions . |
| 7 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 8 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 9 | Secondly , it enables us to take account of the knowledge that , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said , had Saddam Hussein not allowed his greed to overcome his stealth by invading Kuwait last year , he would almost certainly have developed a nuclear weapon by the end of 1993 . |
| 10 | If this had happened the rogue could not have conferred title upon the innocent purchaser ( unless under some other exception to the nemo dat principle ) for the rogue would no longer have had a voidable title . |
| 11 | The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself . |
| 12 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |