Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] such " in BNC.

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1 I should not have expected to obtain such a reaction if more than twelve years had elapsed since death . ’
2 Let us bear in mind how much they must have suffered to achieve such beauty .
3 And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move .
4 He must be past thirty now , but she would never have believed he could have grown to make such a gross figure of a man .
5 If we thought that a funding council would be entirely inappropriate , we would never have agreed to include such provisions in the Bill .
6 ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . )
7 The experience of history may have helped to consolidate such a sense of trust .
8 ‘ If you 'd been around where you should have been , then possibly Ace would n't have had to take such instant action to avoid Dara ! ’
9 Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time : his speech in the war council shows that , with different values prevalent , he might not have opted to continue such a war .
10 In case Lord Milton missed the importance of making this change , Campbell took the trouble of repeating the request three days after first suggesting it , which was clearly long before the judge could have hoped to arrange such an alteration .
11 In the circumstances , I find it inconceivable that , if Parliament wished to restrict the governors ' established right to adopt religious criteria for admission , it would have legislated to produce such a basic departure from the existing law by implication rather than by clear enactment .
12 Some members of the Committee would have liked to support such an amendment in Committee and we have had a speech already tonight from the Government Back Benches in support of it .
13 Still , he was shocked that she should have chosen to play such a part .
14 However , it seemed rather strange that Shipton , a man with enormous powers of observation , should have failed to notice such an important recording of ancient life .
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