Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother-child separation at four months of age may not be too disturbing , as the child will not yet have formed a lasting selective attachment to her . |
| 2 | Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved ! |
| 3 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 4 | It 's from the Bible , actually , and it would have formed a small part of what I wanted to say to you this morning ; ‘ Do n't make friends with people who have hot , violent tempers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Badham ( 1981 ) has suggested that the basinal Lower Silurian shales to the west of the carbonate shelf facies could have formed a suitable depositional environment for mineralisation of the SEDEX style . |
| 7 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 8 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 9 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 10 | According to the owner 's agent , Robert Holden , the owners offered to give the house and land in exchange for £1.8 for the contents , which would have formed an enhanced tax douceur . |
| 11 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 12 | So the coalition should have given a reasoned reply , welcoming the offer to withdraw and saying that all the other issues are open for discussion once the withdrawal has taken place and a cease-fire is in operation . |
| 13 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 14 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 15 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 16 | Her absence ( if it was regular and fairly lengthy ) would presumably have given a similar opportunity to her husband . |
| 17 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 18 | If the patient has been misled or misinformed he may not have given a genuine consent or refusal . |
| 19 | Your report ( 4 March ) regarding the proposed housing and golf course development at Archerfield , East Lothian , may have given a misleading impression of the current situation . |
| 20 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 21 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 22 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 23 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 24 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 25 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 26 | Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research . |
| 27 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 28 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 29 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 30 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |