Example sentences of "have [verb] a different " in BNC.

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1 A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading .
2 Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach .
3 The external skeleton inherited from their water-living forebears , needed few modifications for life on land , but the millipedes did have to acquire a different method of breathing .
4 He commented that if the process was to have practical importance ‘ we would have to find a different catalysing particle which has properties similar to the muon but has a lifetime of at least ten or twenty minutes . ’
5 If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this .
6 Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement .
7 Maybe then we would have prepared a different course of action . ’
8 The police could have adopted a different stratagem but it would have been ‘ more time-consuming and difficult ’ than this ‘ simple procedure ’ .
9 Would they have made a different assessment ?
10 ‘ Many young women would have made a different choice , ’ he answered .
11 Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision .
12 Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today .
13 We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection .
14 If Mr Bumble had known this earlier , he might have told a different story , but now it was too late .
15 Had a piece of Lotharian history survived for these years , it would have told a different story .
16 A more inquiring mind might also have drawn a different conclusion from the most peculiar episode in the book , which concerns the death in Liege in 1922 of a young man called Kleine .
17 We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance .
18 The decision in G. v. G. is of course now well known , but I reiterate it , since the matter has been raised in this case , that is that even if the appellate court would itself have preferred a different conclusion it must leave the decision of first instance undisturbed unless it could say the decision was wrong .
19 I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this .
20 That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around .
21 Were perception conceived of differently , it is quite likely that the decision tree would have had a different structure and led to different conclusions .
22 To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ?
23 Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending .
24 Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution .
25 It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) .
26 His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex .
27 Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome .
28 At sea level we would have got a different picture as the man-eating breakers punched against the rocky coast .
29 You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification .
30 And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history .
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