Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A greater degree of smoothing could have been produced by increasing the size of the box , but this implies the loss of more detail . |
| 2 | Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative . |
| 3 | Of saying let's have Christian education on another day of the week , let's have all age worship , in whatever form , on a Sunday morning . |
| 4 | The established course of dealing must have been consistent . |
| 5 | They suggest that forecasts of warming may have to revised downwards . |
| 6 | Some formal , institutionalized ways of identifying need have been already indicated . |
| 7 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 8 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that subjective risk in driving may have many similarities with emotional arousal in other circumstances , thus the best way to make predictions about the potential effects of subjective risk on memory for driving situations is to review the general literature on the relationship between arousal and memory . |
| 10 | Meal before leaving would have been preferred . |
| 11 | This book is in general good , but a chapter on foregrounding would have made it so much better . |
| 12 | However , as we have seen , there is little evidence that such poverty did decline in this period ; indeed the survival of more mouths to fed may have increased it . |
| 13 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 14 | The instructions about practising will have been given while he was under hypnosis ( although he will , of course , have heard and understood every word ) and so , because he is willing for it to happen , they will be firmly planted in his subconscious mind . |