Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 2 | Now these and similar comments would require careful scrutiny if the thrust of the argument were to the effect that Parliament could not have intended to establish an inquisitorial régime of this kind in relation to serious or complex fraud alone . |
| 3 | In these circumstances I think it clear , given the diversity of immunities and of the policies underlying them , that it is not enough to ask simply whether Parliament can have intended to abolish a long-standing right of silence . |
| 4 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 5 | I could hardly have expected to hear a complete stranger making such a blatant and … and totally unwarranted assassination of my character . |
| 6 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 7 | Another interesting consequence of the drag effect is that , within a further billion years , all the galaxies should have merged to form a single central elliptical galaxy surrounded by an extensive gaseous and dark halo . |
| 8 | To heat the building to a reasonable temperature would have cost so much that they would have needed to charge a substantial entrance fee ! |
| 9 | Since the average rate of interest paid on the deposits was about 9 per cent ( Mates 1986 ) , the banks would have needed to charge an average interest rate on their counterpart dinar loans of over 50 per cent in order to cover themselves . |
| 10 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 11 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 12 | A few months ago she would have needed to buy a larger size , but it looked good , she had to admit . |
| 13 | All tidy and comfortable , though she would have preferred to see a little color about the place . |
| 14 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 15 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 17 | If Bourke recorded some of these conversations with Blake in October he would have had to take a battery-operated audio recorder with him across the common , as well as the two-way radio , and link the two together while lying in the grass talking to Blake . |
| 18 | Five minutes later I would have had to explain a naked vicar as well . |
| 19 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 20 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 21 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 22 | But Geoff Cooke and company will have had to draw a deep breath , and had need of all their courage , if they have picked him ahead of Rob Andrew as the other stand-off to Stuart Barnes . |
| 23 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 24 | Those investors ( assume a holding of 1000 shares ) who took up their rights would have seen the value of their investment fall from 1000 ( 2.34 ) = 2,340 to 1000 ( 1.98 ) = 1,980 and would have had to find a further 200 ( 190 ) = 380 to invest in the company . |
| 25 | If Shakespeare wrote a play with a cast of twenty-five , then he must have had to write a separate copy for each of the cast . |
| 26 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 27 | If they had , they would have had to provide an alternative explanation of where the surface energy of a newly broken surface came from , but somehow nobody took it very seriously . |
| 28 | It it does concern me , Chairman , David , Councillor Morbey has just said , I would have made noises , and I would have attempted to get a better settlement . |
| 29 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 30 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |