Example sentences of "[adv] have " in BNC.

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1 I thought we might perhaps have lunch . ’
2 You may perhaps have some mild symptoms of the disease itself .
3 With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years .
4 The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself .
5 Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know .
6 We never tried to see one another 's faces : that would perhaps have spoiled the purity of the experience .
7 Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant .
8 Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood .
9 I very much doubt whether Wolfgang will find there all those things which he has imagined and the great advantages which several people may perhaps have described to him .
10 At this stage , David Stirling might perhaps have allowed himself a moment or two of self-congratulation .
11 This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times .
12 Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word :
13 This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise .
14 All Church assemblies should perhaps have the motto , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ inscribed above the door to remind them that the Church exists for outsiders not insiders .
15 As a child , this pride type would perhaps have been beaten in order to subject their will to the adult and break their pride , but without success .
16 the authority will perhaps have the time to consider overall policy objectives and the context in which all the schools and colleges operate .
17 Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth .
18 She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events .
19 You may perhaps have some mild symptoms of the disease itself .
20 The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres .
21 Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning !
22 He tends to deal with one or more Japanese breeders , and will perhaps have visited Japan himself , to select choice fish .
23 Umm , err … to make it more fun for both of us , we could perhaps have dinner and you could show me how you 'd behave in a date situation .
24 Doing this , ‘ he will perhaps have learned more than he can tell . ’
25 She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke .
26 Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time .
27 It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change .
28 It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo .
29 There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom .
30 The Nordic states were reluctant to enter into any kind of commitment , but would perhaps have been willing to follow a British lead , while in France and the Low Countries British participation was regarded as an indispensable guarantee of security against both a resurgence of German militarism and the shadowy threat of the Soviet Union .
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