Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two assistants swore that nothing would have changed by the time he returned . |
| 2 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 3 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 4 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 5 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ that everyone might have been flung about a bit . |
| 6 | I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that . |
| 7 | A guide to procedure should be produced so that everyone would have an outline of a desirable order of events and to ensure proper standards of fairness and impartiality . |
| 8 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 9 | Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others . |
| 10 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |
| 11 | While we all think that everyone should have unlimited access to public areas , we have to live in the real world and accept that all sports and hobbies are controlled in some way or other . |
| 12 | The aim is that there should be something for everybody in all parts of the country and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons . ’ |
| 13 | It is right and proper that everyone should have the same opportunity , but this can be controlled by one officer in my belief . |
| 14 | ‘ We are very keen that everyone will have a clear idea of what is involved . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 17 | That does not excuse the fact that I ought to have found out otherwise . ’ |
| 18 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 19 | I supposed that I ought to have brought the Ghost down too , but the priority had been to save myself from what seemed like imminent electrocution . |
| 20 | But against that , although I know that he 'd took three or four very good jobs that I ought to have had , but he was a very , very good detective , a hard working inspector . |
| 21 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 22 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 23 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 24 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 25 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 26 | Imagine my excitement , therefore , when it seemed recently that I might have stumbled across it in the shape of the Tower House in Malmesbury , Wiltshire . |
| 27 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 28 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 29 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 30 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |