Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 2 | ‘ We should perhaps have started this indoors , but my mother is there . |
| 3 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 4 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 5 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 6 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 7 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 8 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 9 | Bury and Stockport once more topped the list , with third place going to Bradford , an authority where the national attention paid to the city 's politics , and the polarising of political opinion on the ground , can only have increased electoral interest . |
| 10 | Ellwood reasoned that the women would only have felt curious if Annie was driving on the mirror : clearly , she was n't . |
| 11 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |
| 12 | I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance . |
| 13 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 14 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 15 | It would only have needed one postponement at the school 's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol 's big opportunity ! |
| 16 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 17 | Jorg Sambetn , a Givaudan engineer who investigated the accident after it happened , says it should only have taken 15 minutes , and can not understand why the workers omitted it . |
| 18 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 19 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 20 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 21 | All new school buildings in northern China , where the weather is cold and bright , will henceforth have built-in solar energy installations . |
| 22 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 23 | Mars , by contrast , being so much further away from the Sun , is very cold : the water vapour produced by its early volcanoes would swiftly have frozen solid , leaving a thin atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | I could not have received better treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 25 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 26 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 27 | His comrades in arms had made their views known to him quite openly and , in any case , he could not have remained ignorant in a country so full of informers , police and intelligence services as Spain then was . |
| 28 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 29 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 30 | A great deal of growth was , however , in suburbs outside the limits of the city , which , until much later , was the preferred domicile of the affluent , and so the population of the City itself may not have exceeded 50 000 . |