Example sentences of "[vb pp] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 2 | But they do not decide the issue because many of the Catholic scholars listed may have experienced the frustration of censorship to a degree not experienced by their Protestant contemporaries . |
| 3 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 4 | In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence . |
| 5 | Yet , the physical demands of numerous pregnancies too closely spaced may have maleffects for the mother and child , and commencement of childbearing before the woman is physically mature may represent a serious risk to health and life for the mother and her young children . |
| 6 | That this radicalism was contained may have had more to do with the strength of the State in the West , together with the size , cohesion and resilience of anti-socialist groups among the middle classes and peasantry , than with any natural tendency for the working class to become ‘ integrated ’ and its aspirations attenuated . |
| 7 | Evans suggested that if the complete picture showed an attack on a city the houses depicted may have been part of an outer defence wall in which no ground-floor doors or windows would have been possible . |
| 8 | In their Fig. 2 , both the warmer and colder climates considered may have had tropical temperatures approximately the same as the current climate . |
| 9 | How such choices are resolved may have a considerable effect on the efficiency of the method . |
| 10 | My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party . |
| 11 | No guidelines are given for the interpretation of s8 except that the term to be included must have been a fair and reasonable one having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of , the parties when the contract was made ( s11(1) ) . |
| 12 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 13 | JERVIS : [ reprovingly ] I could never have thought that the son of my dear good lady departed could have so forfeited his honour as to endeavour to destroy a virtue he ought to protect . |
| 14 | Had disabled people been involved in the planning discussions for the project , perhaps even the main issues addressed would have been very different . |
| 15 | Trying not to let excitement show in my voice I said , ‘ Hold on while I check my diary ’ knowing fine that whatever was committed would have to be re-arranged ! |
| 16 | Committed would have to take place without the DUP or Sinn Fein , representing 29pc of the electorate . |
| 17 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 18 | In any event most ear , nose , and throat departments have a review facility whereby patients whose symptoms had spontaneously resolved would have their operations postponed . |
| 19 | These earlier studies were performed before the recognition of H pylori and most of the patients included would have had the infection . |
| 20 | Clearly , although respondents so grouped will have this property in common , they will undoubtedly also vary on lots of other factors , such as level of education , income , attitudes and beliefs , number of siblings , ethnicity , age , gender , and many more . |
| 21 | Perhaps he is optimistic in assuming that the students he has targeted will have much in the way of explicit grammatical knowledge ; in my experience , first-year British undergraduates have little more than sketchy notions of what nouns and verbs are . |
| 22 | Many of the concepts explained might have appeared self-evident but a thorough grasp of these basic points is essential for understanding later sections of the book which deal with international banking and finance . |
| 23 | ‘ If the condition had not been diagnosed might have discovered he was ill when it was too late to do anything , ’ said . |
| 24 | The occupational health department should be used as a resource to those nurses who it is suspected may have a health or social problem . |
| 25 | The collection which they have prepared may have looked wonderfully appetising in the kitchen . |
| 26 | Applications relating to former wards of court in care should be made to the High Court if the order sought may have the effect of varying or discharging an order or direction made in wardship ( In Re C ( a Minor ) , CA ( 1991 ) , The Times , 16 December and see 5(c) below ) . |
| 27 | Given the likelihood that in a CSW team there is both a tendency to keep files open to reflect the ‘ streetwork ’ and informal contact that is maintained , and a probability that intervention will occur prior to demands for day or residential care , the strategy adopted may have identified only a minority of the cases actually dealt with . |
| 28 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 29 | The bat 's brain relies upon the assumption that the world portrayed by any one echo pulse will be either the same as the world portrayed by previous pulses , or only slightly different : the insect being tracked may have moved a little , for instance . |
| 30 | The staff members that are transferred may have a frustrating period before they become acquainted and learn to work together on the project . |