Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 3 | Industrial output has stabilised , too , after falling over 60% in 1991–92 , the most precipitous economic collapse in Eastern Europe ( having fallen that far , it could hardly have got worse ) . |
| 4 | The Royalist Roman Catholic French would probably have made better conquerors of Ireland , if Ireland had to be reconquered once more . |
| 5 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 6 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 7 | Such relative uniformity may also have given greater cohesion to the Angevin Empire , for its major towns from Rouen to La Rochelle and Bayonne shared the Etablissements . |
| 8 | It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers . |
| 9 | Retrospectively , therefore , some Minors might well have become later candidates for Major status . |
| 10 | Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today . |
| 11 | Indeed in the absence of the Cold War the loan — assuming its final approval by Congress — might well have had further damaging effects upon Anglo-American relations . |
| 12 | Had he survived , the old chap would surely have found better ways to fritter this weekend . |
| 13 | Its A-minus rating has been put on probation , out of fear of ballooning deficits ; it might indeed have met sterner treatment had 1989 not been a mayoral election year . |
| 14 | Later , a second change permitted these tax benefits to be offset against income that would otherwise have attracted higher rates of tax . |
| 15 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |