Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 2 | Doctors hardly counted till after 1850 and no one could have foreseen the later social power of lawyers . |
| 3 | I could n't have arranged a better still life . |
| 4 | I could n't have arranged a better still life . |
| 5 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 6 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 7 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 8 | By that time , the RECs should have developed a better understanding of the market , and pricing policies to suit . |
| 9 | I do not blame the Opposition for not understanding the issues as fully as we might hope , but , given their new-found support and desire for everything European , I thought that they might have developed a better understanding . |
| 10 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 11 | These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 . |
| 12 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 13 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 14 | However , it could have hidden a greater reduction in flow in the deeper layers of the bowel wall , which may be the main site of vascular compromise . |
| 15 | Indeed , newly issued bills will have to carry a larger discount to match the higher market rates . |
| 16 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 17 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 18 | I would have added a further recommendation to the Clapham conclusions : that British Rail should forthwith desist from any further advertising expenditure and re-route the money to the improvement of safety and engineering standards . |
| 19 | He paused ; he 'd have to catch a later flight . |
| 20 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 21 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 22 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 23 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 24 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
| 25 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
| 26 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 27 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 28 | ‘ Should have picked a quieter place to meet , ’ he chuckles . |
| 29 | Many schemes are funded for three to five years and , although some tapering mechanisms may allow continued but limited funding thereafter , in the long run local authorities may have to bear a larger proportion of total expenditure if schemes are to continue . |
| 30 | A child may come before a hearing on an offence referral and be made subject to a supervision requirement for a number of reasons , of which the offence may be only one ; the child may on review be kept subject to a supervision requirement , even though he may have committed no further offences , because of , say , inadequate parental care . |