Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that the therapist should have endeavoured at a much earlier stage to involve the parents in treatment , preferably by means of conjoint sessions with Pamela and her parents together . |
| 2 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 3 | As the will of Archbishop Ælfric of Canterbury ( d.1005 ) bequeaths to the king a ship together with sixty helmets and byrnies this must have happened at a fairly early date . |
| 4 | My Lords , section 87 does not stipulate that the successor must have resided at a particular house for 12 months but only that he should have resided with the deceased tenant for that period . |
| 5 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |
| 6 | Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level . |
| 7 | The latter clause , however , had had the approval of negotiating bodies representing both potato merchants and farmers ; no blame for the infection of the seed potatoes was attributable to either side ; and , further , the buyers , if they had so wished , could have bought at a small extra cost , seed potatoes certified by inspectors of the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the farmers could have bought at a slightly higher price certified seed , which , being certified , was less likely to be suffering from the virus which affected the seed actually bought . |
| 9 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
| 10 | If a customer was unaware of the need to provide variation margin from time to time and had insufficient available funds to meet margin calls , then he may be forced to liquidate his position at a loss even though , had the contract been allowed to run to maturity , it may have closed at a profit . |
| 11 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 12 | Anyone would have felt at a disadvantage in such a situation . |
| 13 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 14 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 15 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |