Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leland Allen , a quantum chemist at Princeton University , believes that Pople has brought elements of standardisation , reliability , a large body of reference calculations , ready availability , and reproducibility ; and most importantly has opened up a second pathway — in addition to experimentation — to chemical truth . |
| 2 | I had a romantic , not an objective , conception of history ; Alexander the Great was foremost among my heroes , Montrose was the leader I would most gladly have followed , John Knox was my particular aversion . |
| 3 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 4 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 5 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 6 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 7 | Were it not fur her , I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair . |
| 8 | Any normal person would long since have collapsed . |
| 9 | Likewise , if the explosion occurred early enough in the Solar System 's history , the shell of gases could long since have dissipated . |
| 10 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 11 | This should not unduly worry us : by that time , unless we have colonized beyond the Solar System , mankind will long since have died out , extinguished along with our sun ! |
| 12 | Cottages dotted the waterside through the village ; and anything which had gone into the water some hours ago must , in any case , either have been brought ashore there already or long since have passed through , before the general alarm went out . |
| 13 | The stations of the South African Boer Republics , themselves huge concessions to the modern world which the Boers would originally much rather have done without , took on some of the dour , flinty character of Dutch Reformed Calvinism . |
| 14 | " I 'd much rather have written instructions than a telephone call . " |
| 15 | She would much rather have paid . |
| 16 | He 'd much rather have advised a disciple — the earnest girl Fruitbat , perhaps , or her relentlessly smiling lover , Chogyam-Jones , who dressed in what looked like a Chinese carpet ; their flattery was becoming necessary . |
| 17 | She is ranked sufficiently highly to have gone straight into the main draw , but made it clear that the Games were inconvenient for her schedule this years , as she had a lot of points to defend in tournaments . |
| 18 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 19 | So that 's really you literally only have to listen to the phone call and turn up . |
| 20 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |
| 21 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 22 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |
| 23 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 25 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 26 | When I had been in the attic long enough to have tidied and cleaned the cupboards , and put a shine on the ancient chest of drawers and wardrobe , I settled to knit Jean-Claude sweaters and socks . |
| 27 | You 've been round this club now for long enough to have learned something of my reputation . |
| 28 | She had not been absent from her home for long enough to have forgotten her own house smell . |
| 29 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 30 | So much had happened since he last saw her . |