Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | Therefore the DOE may have to build new reactors at a cost of 8 billion dollars , and it will be ten years before these are ready . |
| 3 | Such products may have to contain specific properties ( attributes ) that match exactly the demand pattern of a specific group of customers . |
| 4 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 5 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 6 | Diaper may have taken another cure in Crick , Northamptonshire , and by March 1713–14 was serving in Dean , near Basingstoke . |
| 7 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 8 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 9 | Readings were taken only at one minute intervals , and therefore saturation values may have fallen lower inbetween , although the automatic alarm set at 85% was never activated . |
| 10 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 11 | Other groups may have bettered these results ; they are gleaned from Special Action Feedbacks which had been received by AIBS at the time we went to press . |
| 12 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 13 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 14 | More expensive garages may have tiled pitched roofs , with gables either at the front and back of the building or on the side walls , allowing you to match the roof style and the finish to that of your house if you wish . |
| 15 | Thus , the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon . |
| 16 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 17 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Now on form Swindon should have walked this game against Brighton and that 's just what they were doing … strolling when the seagulls went flying into the lead after just six minutes … good goal for Mark Gall he took the chance well . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) . |
| 20 | In addition , personnel working in this field must have received adequate training in the assessment procedure , and in the management of interpersonal and family problems . |
| 21 | Even if such inscriptions were non-existent rather than just rare , it would be no more than commonsense to guess that generals in the field must have enjoyed great executive latitude , especially in wartime — more latitude than was compatible with the exercise of detailed control , and so of full sovereignty , by the Assembly . |
| 22 | What banking services there were , had been developed on the continent by Italians , and were not widely available outside the capital cities like London , so provincial merchants must have employed other forms of credit . |
| 23 | They were certainly too much for a dismal Everton outfit and Chelsea should have had more goals as they eased on to the heels of the leading Premier League pack . |
| 24 | The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting . |
| 25 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 26 | The information on this project provided by the IDA and the IIRS should have provided sufficient assurance to those concerned regarding the plant suitability and safety for the area . |
| 27 | The palm wine he 'd drunk at the evening banquet must have driven all sense from him … his first taste . |
| 28 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 29 | While the words may have played little part in Nationalist propaganda , and the ideas they connoted have been uncongenial to many Catholics and erstwhile liberal monarchists within the Nationalist camp , nevertheless the prominence of the Falange and the involvement of Italy and Germany sufficed to satisfy most foreign observers , and by no means only those on the left , that the Spanish rebels were indeed ‘ fascists ’ . |
| 30 | Process redesign may have generated more hype than light , but at its core is the imaginative use of today 's computing power in ways that can be peculiarly useful to banks . |