Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , subject to obtaining any necessary consent , is to treat the patient in accordance with his own best clinical judgment , notwithstanding that other practitioners who are not called upon to treat the patient may have formed a quite different judgment or that the court , acting on expert evidence , may disagree with him . |
| 2 | Quigly , Willis and Frome — it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors ' firm . |
| 3 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 4 | Election experts could legitimately point to the fact that a system of proportional voting could have given a very different result . |
| 5 | But , while the main survey showed that men in general tended to be better informed about credit than women , that difference was too small to suggest that Asian women would have given a very different impression if they had been included in the groups . |
| 6 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 7 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 8 | And then immediately wondered if she should have given a more positive reply . |
| 9 | If you have any fixed-wing experience , you will by now have realised a very important difference between helicopters and aeroplanes . |
| 10 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
| 11 | For instance , under a market valuation of exchange rates Tanzania 's coffee producers would have received a significantly higher farmgate price when expressed in local currency , and their capacity to save and invest would have been higher . |
| 12 | In this respect , Kenneth Baker 's jocular early reference to Labour 's ‘ Gould mine ’ of political gaffes may conceivably have fallen a little short . |
| 13 | Partition had cut off the Pomeranian Poles from the areas of Poland that might have sustained a more confident sense of Polish national identity . |
| 14 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 15 | In a poll of Anglican Clergy undertaken in 1864 only 40% expressed the view that the damned would suffer everlasting torment ; it may be assumed that a poll of laity would have disclosed a substantially lower percentage.ii . |
| 16 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 17 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 18 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 19 | I often wonder what the casual passer-by would have made of us , as we must have looked a really piratical bunch with piles of American cigarettes and Polish vodka spread around our decks . |
| 20 | He would have enjoyed a technically legal claim to the throne of his regal forebears — and perhaps , as had been suggested , the technically legal claim . |
| 21 | One of the only four known examples of the form by Newport 's major maker , even restoration to its feet would not have prevented a far higher price in the boom of the late 1980s . |
| 22 | If he 'd been thrown in cold against Juventus 's £8 million man , McLaren might well have suffered a very different fate from the rave reviews that greeted his outstanding display . |
| 23 | But Somalia 's refugees may have suffered a less appalling fate than the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Somalia , who have existed in desolate camps for nearly 10 years . |
| 24 | The right hon. Gentleman should have done a little more research . |
| 25 | I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job . |
| 26 | And our noble lords at the palace would certainly have done a more professional job . ’ |
| 27 | If there was a " consumer revolution " in eighteenth-century England , it must have owed a very great deal to an improvement in road transport which , according to one writer , allowed " our very carriages to travel with almost winged expedition " . |
| 28 | By Gerald Larner FOLLOWERS of the BBC Philharmonic — that small but discriminating section of the concert audience in the North-west — will have noticed a peculiarly high proportion of works featuring solo trumpet in the orchestra 's current programmes . |
| 29 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 30 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |