Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derby start 2-1 down to Cambridge and Villa defend the same score at Wolves , where Taylor may have to trust in another piece of sports sagacity . |
| 2 | Glory may have departed from this earth , but faint traces or soft echoes of it persist in the unlikeliest recesses of mind and landscape . |
| 3 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 4 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 5 | How relationships may have changed by this time ! |
| 6 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
| 7 | Hardy should have thought of that and found them some more suitable conveyance . |
| 8 | Napoleon must have felt like that in Russia , 120 years before . ’ |
| 9 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 10 | More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use . |
| 11 | After a while , the villagers suspected that their priest must have stumbled across some sort of treasure , for how else could the funding of his good works be explained ? |
| 12 | But the committee removed key sentences which suggested that flaws in the experiment might have resulted in this being a serious underestimate . |
| 13 | A good lawyer could have dealt with that . |
| 14 | Looking back afterwards , Florrie found it hard to believe that such a tragedy could have arisen from such trivial , everyday circumstances . |
| 15 | Rosalba would have twitched at such words , but Cati was so used to them , she only wavered because she was wondering how to give him her message , and she thought he was going to turn . |
| 16 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 17 | She wondered what Grandmama would have advised in all the circumstances . |
| 18 | At least , I thought , their eyes would have looked on that same pond , the pond which now my own eyes saw . |
| 19 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 20 | Significantly , the employee will have to serve in that employment for two years before again gaining the protection of the unfair dismissal legislation . |
| 21 | The defence will remain unchanged in the continued absence of central defender Kevin Ball , who is recovering from a knee injury , and if Goodman is available Crosby will have to choose between former England international Peter Davenport or young striker David Rush for the remaining midfield slot . |
| 22 | Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period . |
| 23 | ‘ You and Sarah 'll have to see to all t'stock , as well as t'poultry and dairywork . |
| 24 | And then crossed out ‘ dumb ’ and inserted ‘ sweet ’ because it occurred to her that Mrs Rundle might have known about this affliction from the lawyers but had not been able to find the words to tell the children about it . |
| 25 | We did not believe that the issue should have come within that particular article . |
| 26 | ‘ Eve must have felt like this on the way east out of Eden , ’ she thought . |
| 27 | It puzzled him beyond measure that the boy should have stumbled upon this private area . |
| 28 | In Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 , it was argued that a surveyor conducting a rent review as an expert should have looked at more evidence of comparable lettings . |
| 29 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
| 30 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |