Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face .
2 Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions .
3 Science and technology must surely have progressed in a different way if these principles had been embraced from the start .
4 By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class .
5 If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book .
6 After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune .
7 They might even have belonged to a child .
8 If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade .
9 Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop .
10 Jonathan Aitken escaped the total destruction of his career , which might well have resulted from a conviction .
11 It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution .
12 Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict .
13 Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home .
14 The largest so far identified lies west of Ryknild Street , emphasizing the fact that the road may once have acted as a settlement boundary .
15 It may possibly have begun as a baptistry or succeeded a cult centre at the spring head .
16 ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past .
17 Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design .
18 She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek .
19 He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy .
20 It could scarcely have come at a worse time .
21 His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season .
22 They could easily have waited for a few days . ’
23 ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy .
24 He used his pace and aerial strength and created some chances , one of his passed could easily have resulted in a goal .
25 Captain Montgomery was a tall , burly character with a jutting black beard , white teeth , a slightly hooked nose and humorous eyes and , in spite of the immaculately cut uniform and four golden rings on either cuff , could easily have passed for a well-to-do and genial eighteenth-century Caribbean pirate .
26 The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note .
27 The ten-week India campaign could hardly have started on a worse personal note when it was announced , just as England flew in on 29 December that his marriage was over .
28 For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time .
29 In addition , divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching .
30 He knew he could really have done with a saw .
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