Example sentences of "[vb base] that [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are thought to have formed by partial melting of subducted oceanic crust — a process that would have been much more widespread early in Earth history than at present , owing to the higher thermal gradients prevailing at that time . |
| 2 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 3 | Any partial parse that is rejected will be removed — thereby removing any parse that would have contained this component . |
| 4 | be aware of the need to provide not just on-the-spot support but , where possible , support that will have a lasting effect on classroom practice ; |
| 5 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’ |
| 7 | Rather more impressive in the parallel stakes is an engineering model of the scalable parallel system in development at the company 's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Systems Laboratory , a moderately parallel machine that will have eight to 64 RS/6000 processors scaling up to 6 GFLOPS peak performance . |
| 8 | GOALKEEPING giant Peter Schmeichel saved referee Brian Hill from a fan attack that would have shamed Manchester United . |
| 9 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 10 | When the child reached the bottom of the first page the woman darted forward , black hair swinging across her face , for the kind of effortful page turn that would have upstaged Paderewski himself . |
| 11 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
| 12 | Uninhibited by any tradition of building , they have taken off in a confused conglomeration of tile , cement , plastics , marble and paint that would have taxed the imagination of Disney . |
| 13 | This year Benskins came back with a demand for a £5,000 a year increase that would have taken John 's annual rent to £23,000 plus £100 a week for the business rate . |
| 14 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 15 | For example , sightings of UAPs should be concentrated around active fault zones ; there should be more in hilly terrain ; reservoirs with their attendant stresses on the rock should be focal points for the effect ; and the passage of masses of air , such as cold fronts , should release any strain that may have built up . |
| 16 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 17 | She was behaving with unaccustomed grandeur , slipping on a manner of authority and calm that would have made her mother laugh , if she had not wanted to cry . |
| 18 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |