Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have provoked even worse charges . |
| 2 | By then , tens of thousands more workers will have got the Sack and Sterling will have plunged even lower in value . |
| 3 | She should have realised that earlier . |
| 4 | Usually it is reasonable to presume that ( if the parties had considered the eventuality that the contract would become impossible or illegal to perform ) , they would have intended all further performance to be excused . |
| 5 | The 128th-ranked Wood has a more difficult task against no 67 Wiltrud Probst of Germany , but Britain 's No 2 from Sussex could have fared much worse . |
| 6 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 7 | Still , Auntie could have done far worse than that . |
| 8 | I would have felt much happier if the word had been will rather than could . |
| 9 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 10 | Again , non-sufferers would have anticipated even greater restrictions resulting from incontinence . |
| 11 | However , the tribunal rejected the employer 's reasoning , holding that if such reason were to be valid after the appeals it would have had even greater validity before . |
| 12 | They should have had much better control and devised their computerisation rather more effectively than they did . ’ |
| 13 | Could n't have got much worse could |
| 14 | On the criminal side , establishment of the Central Taxing Units should have offered much quicker payment in those cases over £4,000 . |
| 15 | Of course , the dinosaur specialist has long recognized that some of the smaller species were fairly agile , and could have reached considerably higher speeds than the larger carnosaurs . |
| 16 | We could have found somewhere cheaper , or taken up Richard 's mother 's offer that she should buy a house in the suburbs and share it with us , but Richard had theories about the importance of a good , central address , as well as about the waste of nervous energy involved in travelling . |
| 17 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 18 | Enabled by the willingness of parliament to facilitate local economic improvement , the turnpike trusts succeeded in injecting resources into the improvement of a road network which might otherwise have remained much worse . |
| 19 | ‘ Without it you 'd … you might have … you 'd have taken far longer to get well . ’ |
| 20 | The pattern of changes in structure , style , attitudes and behaviour that were eventually achieved would probably not have been possible , or would have taken significantly longer to achieve , in the absence of a critical mass of key individuals who were prepared to devote time and effort to heighten the confidence and enthusiasm of their ‘ converts ’ with their positive message . |